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[Posted on 14 February 2026 with updates<\/em>]<\/p>\n The full, 16-file, professional, level of our digital font RGME Bembino<\/a> has been available for a while, with several updates in response to requests for more languages or features.\u00a0\u00a0We are thrilled to announce the launch of BembinoWP<\/b>, a 4-file subset bringing our font to the Mac and Windows<\/b> Word-processing Communities at large (by request).<\/p>\n BembinoWP<\/strong> has been circulating in a provisional version over recent months, for review, feedback. and corrections. Now we launch it more widely, for all to try out and use.<\/p>\n Find it here:<\/p>\n This release enables the font to reach desk-top publishers and report-writers using widely-available text-processing tools including Microsoft Word<\/b> and PowerPoint<\/b>. The BembinoWP<\/strong> variant offers a migration path to the full version of the font for higher-quality typesetting through professional tools such as Adobe InDesign<\/b> or Quark<\/b>.<\/p>\n Watch for its official Launch on 25 March 2026<\/b>. This date marks the anniversary of the very first printed text set in Bembino: a \u201cHappy Birthday\u201d<\/b> greeting for our Director.<\/p>\n For the launch, the RGME offers some occasions where you could meet the font, hear from its maker and users, and join the Q&A.<\/p>\n Set in RGME Bembino<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n *******<\/p>\n We will speak about the font and the launch. Questions and feedback are welcome.<\/p>\n *******<\/b><\/p>\n Join us for an informal celebration. By request, we propose to share stories and recipes for cookies as we celebrate the collaborative achievements and generosity which have given rise to RGME Bembino and now its variant RGME Bembino WP for Word-Processing, available to everyone.<\/p>\n *******<\/b><\/p>\n Dr. Mildred Budny (Executive Director of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence) and the other speakers (see above) will speak on “Bembino, a New Multi-Lingual Font”<\/p>\n “The beautiful new font, supporting fifty-seven languages, Meeting<\/strong>: At the offices of Bernstein\u2013Shur and on Zoom.<\/p>\n Bernstein\u2013Shur<\/a> *******<\/p>\n Note that RGME Bembino<\/strong> is FREE. Contact<\/p>\n We invite Donations and Contributions to enable us to maintain our mission and make our facilities available.<\/p>\n Please make a Donation in Funds or in Kind<\/strong> for our nonprofit educational corporation powered principally by volunteers. Your donations and contributions are welcome, and can go a long way. They may be tax-deductible to the fullest extent provided by the law.<\/p>\n We look forward to welcoming you at our several events promoting the 25 March 2026 Launch of RGME Bembino WP<\/strong>, whether you can attend in person or online!<\/p>\n Bembino Booklet Cover<\/p><\/div>\n *******<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Announcing the Launch of RGME Bembino WP: A High-Quality Font for Word-Processing” Launch Date: 25 March 2026 [Posted on 14 February 2026 with updates] The full, 16-file, professional, level of our digital font RGME Bembino has been available for a while, with several updates in response to requests for more languages or features.\u00a0\u00a0We are thrilled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1383,117,849,116,678,2014],"tags":[49,1819,2897,1112,1960],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21204"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21207,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21204\/revisions\/21207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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1. Online Episode 23 of “The Research Group Speaks”<\/b><\/h2>\n
“Meet RGME Bembino: Facets of a Font”
\n<\/b>Saturday 21 February 2026<\/b><\/h2>\nOnline by Zoom Meeting
\n1:00-2:30 pm EST (GMT-5)<\/b><\/h3>\nSpeakers<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Information and Registration<\/b><\/h3>\n
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2. Online Conversation in the Grolier Club Common Room
\n(for Grolier Club Members and Guests)
\nTuesday 10 March 2026
\n4:00\u20135:00 pm<\/b><\/h2>\n“Introducing RGME Bembino:
\nA High-Quality, Freely-Available, Multi-Lingual Digital Font”<\/b><\/h2>\nSpeakers (* = Grolier Members)<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\n\u2014 his text, with PowerPoint, will be read by Phillip Bernhardt\u2013House<\/strong> or
\nby * Jennifer Larson<\/strong><\/li>\n3. Online Launch Party for RGME Bembino WP<\/h2>\n
Tuesday 25 March 2026
\n4:00\u20135:30 pm EDT (GMT-4)<\/h2>\nRegistration<\/h3>\n
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4. Hybrid Conversation for The Baxter Society<\/b><\/h2>\n
Wednesday 8 April 2026
\n6:00\u20137:00 pm EDT (GMT-4)<\/b><\/h2>\n
\nis to be made freely available to the literary community this spring by the RGME.”<\/p>\n\n
\n100 Middle St.
\nWest Tower
\nPortland, ME 0410<\/p>\nAbout the Font Bembino<\/b><\/h2>\n
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\nMulti-Lingual Bembino<\/a> (https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/multi-lingual-bembino<\/a>)<\/li>\nPermission for Use<\/h2>\n
\nThe copyright for the Bembino font programs belongs to the RGME, which grants an automatic free license for use in typeset publications, including both scholarly and commercial material.<\/p>\nFine Print (in Response to Questions)<\/h2>\n
As part of the RGME’s preparations for the launch of Bembino WP, we are now registered with Microsoft as a Font Vendor.\u00a0 We will add years to the Copyright Notice.\u00a0 The font is not Trademarked.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nRegarding licensing, this question has come up before.\u00a0 Our aim is to encourage the use of the font in scholarly [and other] publications including works produced For Profit.\u00a0 We want to put as few barriers in the way, and licensing has always seemed problematic.\u00a0 Since we gain no revenue from Bembino we do not have the time, or the resources, to administer and police any form of licensing restriction.\u00a0 It isn’t clear to us exactly what implications there would be in using Creative Commons or any of the other so-called unrestricted licenses.\u00a0 The same is true for including Bembino in one of the public repositories.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe font is not Open-Source, and the source code is in a proprietary format.\u00a0 So far, requests for updates have come to us, and we have worked on them, no-one has suggested a derived work.\u00a0 As far as we know, the Copyright restriction would prevent anyone else attempting to sell the font as part of a commercial font package, but we would not want to prevent embedding the font in a pdf or other document.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe design of the Ethiopic glyphs is original with the intention of matching the style and weight of the other glyphs in the font.\u00a0 The overall look-and-feel was inspired by the display forms in the Unicode Ethiopic table. Augustine Dickinson provided a number of suggestions for adjustments to our initial attempts.<\/div>\nQuestions?\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n
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Donations and Contributions<\/h2>\n
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