About:
Pyrus North America Ltd. was established in 1992 to internationally market and distribute software produced by SoftUnion Ltd. of St. Petersburg, Russia. In 1993 the first product, FontLab 2.0 for Windows, one of the first digital typeface editors for the Windows environment, was released.
In 1995 SoftUnion decided to divest itself of its software business in order to concentrate on its hardware business. All the rights to FontLab were sold to Pyrus North America and the SoftUnion programming team.
In January 2000 a new company, Fontlab Ltd., bought all the assets of Pyrus NA with the intention of further expanding international sales. The company now occupies the leading role worldwide in computer typography tools with more typography products on more platforms in more languages than any other company.