Albertina was a typeface ahead of its time. It was in the early 1960s when designer Chris Brand, an accomplished calligrapher, aspired to draw a typeface based on the principles of calligraphy. Unfortunately, typesetting machines of that era put many restrictions on designers. Characters had to be drawn within a very coarse grid, which also defined their spacing. Technological limitations meant that italic designs often had to share the same character widths as the romans. Designers were forced to draw italic faces much wider and with more open spacing than what would be typical in calligraphic lettering or hand-set type.

Not surprisingly, production of the first Albertina fonts went very slowly. Brand would submit his character drawings, and the Monotype Drawing Office would modify them to be compatible with the company's typesetting equipment. The new drawings would then be sent back to Brand for approval or rework. Most were reworked. The process took so long, in fact, that by the time the face was completed it was once again out of phase with the times: instead of being released as metal type for the Monotype composing machines it had been tailored for, Albertina debuted as phototype fonts for the Monophoto typesetter.

The design's first use was for a catalog of the work of Stanley Morison, exhibited at the Albertina Library in Brussels in 1966. Sales of the design were not remarkable.

With the advent of digital type technology, Albertina's story took a far happier turn. Frank E. Blokland, of the Dutch Type Library, used Brand's original, uncompromised drawings as the foundation of a digital revival. The Monophoto version had taken a considerable battering from the limitations of Monotype's unit system," recalls Blokland, "but there was no need for me to incorporate these restrictions in the digital version."

With the full backing of Monotype and original designer Brand looking over Blokland's shoulder, a new design for Albertina emerged, displaying all the grace and verve of Brand's original drawings. The basic family drawn by Brand also grew into three weights, each with an italic complement and a suite of small caps and old style figures."

通常字库软件使用许可的“被许可方”应为设计方案的最终使用方，因此设计方案的业主单位必须获得所使用字体的相关授权，此外有些授权方式（如桌面授权）规定了使用终端的数量，那么所有使用该字体进行设计或者修改方案的计算机均需要获得授权。

您提交订单时可以选择或者新增“被许可方”信息，在“被许可方”的表单内填写您的客户信息即可。

Windows系统：直接将字体文件复制到C:\Windows\Fonts，或者鼠标右键单击字体文件，选择“安装”即可；Mac系统：双击字体文件-点击安装，或者打开“应用程序”-“字体册”，将字体拖进去即可。

由于操作系统或者软件版本的原因，如果您在软件中找不到安装的字体，建议您先重启系统，该字体在列表中显示的可能为中文或英文名称，请您认真查找，只要字体安装成功，字体列表里就一定存在该字体。

使用微信、支付宝等第三方支付工具进行大额支付时，有可能触发风险提示，请根据以下方法进行操作，您也可以通过企业对公转账的方式支付大额订单；