Case Study: UNESCO achieves streamlined, standardized font management and 80% fewer IT problems with Extensis Universal Type Server

UNESCO Selects Universal Type Server for the Management of its Business Fonts

The Languages and Documents Division at UNESCO—an 80‑person team producing reports and publications in six languages (including Russian and Arabic)—faced serious font management challenges. Workstations could only hold one language’s fonts at a time, desktop publishing workflows required different updates and plug‑ins for InDesign and QuarkXPress, and staff sometimes downloaded uncertified fonts, creating inefficiency, errors and compliance risk.

UNESCO deployed Extensis Universal Type Server (initially to 40 clients) to centralize font management: 3,000 fonts are served from a single system with automatic failover, fonts are accessible on virtually all workstations, and client setup takes under 15 minutes (about 70% time saved). The result: IT problems dropped by ~80%, font compliance issues were eliminated, Mac/PC compatibility and printing were ensured, and overall publishing workflow became faster and more reliable.

UNESCO

Hadi Faraj

Network Administrator for the Conferences