Firefly Education publishes high-quality educational materials including books and CDs for primary and secondary students, and resources for teachers and parents. EdAlive has educational software for Maths, Word Skills, Reading, Spelling and English. New South Wales Foundation style (NSW) Cursive and running writing fonts for.

The NSW fonts are designed in strict accordance with the current NSW Foundation style as specified in Writing K-12, Chapter VI – Handwriting: Teaching the Foundation Approach* originally published by the NSW Department of Education,1987 (ISBN 0 7305 3640 8). The NSW Foundation style is also the current recommended style for the ACT. It is also used by some schools in Victoria and Western Australia. In the NSW Manuscript GT fonts, the letters are unjoined.

In the transitional NSW PreCursive GT font the letters are unjoined but they have cursive exits and entries which the writer needs to master as they move towards fully joined writing. The weight of the Regular fonts is intended to match the average pen thickness of the illustrations in Writing K-12. The Thick weight is approximately 170% of the Regular weight as per common typographic practice. The NSW Manuscript GT fonts are available as Regular (with and without directional arrows), OutIined (with and without directional arrows), Dotted (with and without directional arrows) and Thick. The NSW PreCursive GT fonts are available as Regular, Thick and OutIined. These 10 fonts plus PDF Manual comprises the Beginner Pack. Two additional NSW PreCursive GT fonts are available (Dot, Dot Arrow) but these are not part of the NSW Beginner GT Pack.

When fully joined, PreCursive becomes the Foundation Cursive style. The automatically-joining fully cursive font NSW Cursive GT Pro is available as a separate package with its own Manual. The NSW Cursive GT Pro font is supplied in one weight which is slightly thinner than the stand-alone NSW Manuscript GT-Regular and NSW PreCursive GT-Regular fonts to reflect the fact that, by the time the student begins cursive writing, they will be probably be using more refined writing implements such as ball-point pens etc.

Also, the lighter weight allows the cursive joins to be displayed more accurately and clearly. There are no Thick, Outlined, Dotted or Directional Arrow versions in the NSW Cursive GT Pro font. The NSW Cursive GT Pro font is a sophisticated OpenType font that will only function to its full potential in applications which are OpenType-aware and which recognize special OpenType features called Stylistic Sets. At present, the list of such applications is limited mainly to Microsoft Word and Publisher (2010/2011 & later), Apple Pages (v5.6 & later), Adobe InDesign, Quark XPress (2016 & later), CorelDRAW (X6 & later), Sketch and TextEdit.

Note that the current versions of Word and Publisher only support the use of one Stylistic Set at a time providing basic joining functionality but limiting the full capabilities of the font. Lolly Gartner Woodman there. Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop (up to and including CC) do not support Stylistic Sets. The NSW Cursive GT Pro font does not require the use of any external utility or application to create the cursive joins between letters – the joining is completely automatic, occurring in real time as letters are typed.

All you need to do is select the joining level you want (see the Manual's Quick Start Guide) and start typing! The NSW Cursive GT Pro font is a “combo” font, providing access to the Manuscript, Pre-Cursive and Cursive styles all within a single font file without the need to change fonts in the application’s font menu. Siemens Drive Monitor V5.5.  The font also includes two “speed” versions (Standard and Advanced) of the Cursive style, allowing looped letterforms.