Font Superfamily
In typography, a font superfamily or typeface superfamily is a font family containing fonts that fall into multiple classifications. The norm in a superfamily is to start from an identical character shape; class-specific features such as serifs are added to that shape. The result is a set of fonts with a similar appearance that belong to different classes such as sans, serif, slab serif, rounded. Superfamilies may include fonts grouped together for a common purpose that are not exactly complementary in letterform structure. They can allow organizations to expand their image and style while maintaining stylistic consistency. For example, BBC Reith font superfamily was commissioned by the BBC in 2018 to facilitate 'typographic expression' and consists of three styles ( condensed, sans, serif) as well as a multitude of weights. Notable superfamilies Same letterforms ; Berlingske: by Playtype, comprising Berlingske Serif, Berlingske Serif Display, Berlingske Serif Stenci ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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PT Superfamily
PT, Pt, or pt may refer to: Arts and entertainment * P.T. (Silent Hills), ''P.T.'' (''Silent Hills''), initialism for "playable teaser", a short video game released to promote the cancelled video game ''Silent Hills'' * Porcupine Tree, a British progressive rock group In business Businesses * Capital Cargo International Airlines (IATA airline designator PT) * West Air Sweden (IATA airline designator PT) * Putnam Transit, a bus system that serves Putnam County, New York * Portugal Telecom, the largest telecommunications service provider in Portugal * ''Piteå-Tidningen'', a Swedish local newspaper Business terminology * Part-time job * Perseroan Terbatas, the Indonesian name for a limited liability company Political parties * Workers' Party (Brazil), ''Partido dos Trabalhadores'' (Brazil) (Workers' Party), a Brazilian political party * Workers' Party (France), ''Parti des travailleurs'' (France) (Workers' Party), a defunct French political party * Workers' Party (Guin ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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FF Scala Sans
FF Scala Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Dutch designer Martin Majoor in 1993 for the Vredenburg Music Center in Utrecht, the Netherlands. It was designed as a companion to Majoor's earlier serif old style typeface FF Scala, designed in 1990. It is similar in appearance to Joanna Sans. Like Eric Gill's 1927–30 design Gill Sans and Hans Eduard Meier's typeface Syntax, both upper and lower case are structurally modeled on serif old style faces. The lowercase roman a and g are two-story. FF Scala Sans' italics are true italics, not sloped roman. The lowercase a, e, v and y are particularly calligraphic. FF Scala Sans is a very complete sans-serif in its inclusion of true small capitals, lining and non-lining (old style figures) and many ligatures. In 1993, an additional condensed width of the typeface was released. The typefaces are available through Font Shop International. In 2023, the font, alongside its companion FF Scala, were reissued as "Scala Sans" ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Source Serif Pro
Source Serif (known as Source Serif Pro before 2021) is a serif typeface created by Frank Grießhammer for Adobe Systems. It is the third open-source font family from Adobe, distributed under the SIL Open Font License. The typeface is inspired by the forms of Pierre Simon Fournier and is a complementary design to the Source Sans family. It is available in six weights in upright styles and italics, and five optical sizes. It is also available as a variable font with continuous weights from 200 to 900. The first version, named "Source Serif Pro", was released in 2014. Version 2.0 was released in 2017 and introduced support for more Latin characters, Cyrillic, and Greek. In 2018, Latin italics were added in version "2.007R-ro/1.007R-it". In 2019, Greek and Cyrillic italic were added in version "3.000R". In 2021, a new release added optical sizes; the name "Pro" was dropped at this point. See also * Adobe Originals Adobe's open-source family * Source Sans Pro, the first memb ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Source Sans Pro
Source Sans (known as Source Sans Pro before 2021) is a sans-serif typeface created by Paul D. Hunt, released by Adobe in 2012. It is the first open-source font family from Adobe, distributed under the SIL Open Font License. The typeface is inspired by the forms of the American Type Founders' gothics by Morris Fuller Benton, such as News Gothic, Lightline Gothic and Franklin Gothic, modified with both a larger x-height and character width and more humanist-influenced italic forms. It is available in seven weights (Regular, ExtraLight, Light, Medium, Semibold, Bold, Black) in upright and italic styles, and is also available as a variable font with continuous weight values from 200 to 900. The typeface has wide language support for Latin script, including Western and Eastern European languages, Vietnamese, pinyin romanization of Chinese, and Navajo. Adobe's training material highlights it as having a more consistent colour on the page than the rather condensed News Gothic i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sassoon (typeface)
Sassoon may refer to: *Sassoon (name) * Sassoon (typeface) * David Sassoon Library, in Mumbai, India * Sassoon Docks, in Mumbai, India * Sassoon Eskell Sir Sassoon Eskell, Order of the British Empire, KBE (; ; 17 March 1860 – 31 August 1932), also known as Sassoon Effendi was an Iraqi statesman, politician and financier. He is regarded in Iraq as the Father of Parliament. Eskell was the first ... (1860–1932), Iraqi statesman and financier * Sassoon Road, in Hong Kong {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Otl Aicher
Otto "Otl" Aicher (; 13 May 1922 – 1 September 1991) was a German graphic designer and typographer. Aicher co-founded and taught at the influential Ulm School of Design. He is known for having led the design team of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, and for overseeing the creation of its prominently used system of pictograms. Aicher also developed the Rotis typeface. Early life and career Aicher was born in Ulm, in the south-western state of Baden-Württemberg, on 13 May 1922. Aicher was a classmate and friend of Werner Scholl, and through him met Werner's family, including his siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl (both of whom would be executed in 1943 for their membership in the White Rose resistance movement in Nazi Germany). Like the Scholls, Aicher was strongly opposed to the Nazi movement. He was arrested in 1937 for refusing to join the Hitler Youth, and consequently he was failed on his abitur (college entrance) examination in 1941. He was subsequently drafted int ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rotis
Rotis is a typeface developed in 1988 by Otl Aicher, a German graphic designer and typographer. In Rotis, Aicher explores an attempt at maximum legibility through a highly unified yet varied typeface family that ranges from full serif, glyphic, and sans-serif. The four basic ''Rotis'' variants are: * Rotis serif (antiqua) — with full serifs * Rotis semi-serif (semi-antiqua) — with hinted serifs * Rotis semi-sans (semi-grotesque) — with zero serifs but with stroke width variation * Rotis sans (lineale humanist sans-serif) — with zero serifs and with minimal variation on stroke width Monotype Originals Rotis versions When the Rotis fonts were reissued under the Monotype Originals label, the fonts support include support of ISO Adobe 2 character set, OpenType features. The Rotis font names are capitalized. Rotis Serif It includes 55 Roman, 56 Italic, 65 Bold fonts. Rotis Semi Sans It includes 45 Light, 46 Light Italic, 55 Roman, 56 Italic, 65 Bold, 75 Extra Bold fonts. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alexandra Korolkova
Alexandra Korolkova () (born 1984) is a Russian typeface designer. She was awarded the infrequently presented Prix Charles Peignot in 2013 by the Association Typographique Internationale, becoming the first Russian prizewinner. Korolkova's best-known work is probably the PT Fonts project, a partly open-source project commissioned by the Russian Ministry of Communications as a single family able to support all the common variations of the Cyrillic script. Korolkova works for the company ParaType and studied at the Moscow State University of Printing Arts. She is the author of the book ''Living Typography'' () and has also given lectures on Cyrillic letter structure. She has also designed the typeface FF Carina for FontShop FontShop International was an international manufacturer of digital typefaces (fonts), based in Berlin. It was one of the largest digital type foundries. The ''FontFont'' library of fonts contains designs by 160 type designers, among them renow .... Refere ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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PT Fonts
The Public Type or PT Fonts are a family of free and open-source fonts released from 2009 onwards, comprising PT Sans, PT Serif and PT Mono. They were commissioned from the design agency ParaType by Rospechat, a department of the Russian Ministry of Communications, to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Peter the Great's orthography reform and to create a font family that supported all the different variations of Cyrillic script used by the minority languages of Russia, as well as the Latin alphabet. Primarily designed by Alexandra Korolkova, the family includes sans-serif and serif designs, both with caption styles for small-print text, and a monospaced font for use in programming. They are available under the English-language SIL Open Font License; the original font, PT Sans, was also released under ParaType's own Free Font License, and regular and bold with italics is free in Google. Additional styles, such as extended, condensed and extra-bold, are sold from ParaType as PT ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Merriweather (typeface)
Merriweather is a surname derived from the Middle English ''merie'', meaning 'merry pleasant' and ''wether'', meaning weather. Notable people with the surname "Merriweather" include * Alfred Merriweather (1918–1999), British missionary and politician *Big Maceo Merriweather (1905–1953), American musician * Brian Merriweather (born 1978), American basketball player *Daniel Merriweather (born 1982), Australian singer-songwriter * Ellis Merriweather (born 1999), American football player * Kaevon Merriweather (born 1999), American football player *Katrina Merriweather (born 1979), American basketball coach *Lester Julian Merriweather (born 1978), American collagist, painter *Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887–1973), American entrepreneur * Mike Merriweather (born 1960), American football player * William Merriweather Peña (1919–2018), American architect See also *Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887–1973), an American businesswoman **Merriweather Post Pavilion, a pavilion named af ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Charles Bigelow (type Designer)
Charles A. Bigelow (born July 29, 1945) is an American type historian, professor, and designer. Bigelow grew up in the Detroit suburbs and attended the Cranbrook Schools, Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills. He received a MacArthur Fellows Program, MacArthur Fellowship in 1982, the Frederic W. Goudy Award in 1987, Sloan Science and Film screenwriting awards in 2001 and 2002, and other honors. Along with Kris Holmes, he is the co-creator of Lucida (font), Lucida and Wingdings font families. He is a principal of the Bigelow and Holmes studio. Bigelow received a BA in anthropology in Reed College and was a professor of digital typography at Stanford University from 1982 to 1995. As president of the Committee on Letterform Research and Education of ATypI, he organized the first international seminar on digital type design: "The Computer and the Hand in Type Design", at Stanford in 1983. In mid-2006, Bigelow was appointed to the Melbert B. Cary Distinguished Professorship at Rochest ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lucida (font)
Lucida (pronunciation: ) is an extended family of related typefaces designed by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes and released from 1984 onwards. The family is intended to be extremely legible when printed at small size or displayed on a low-resolution display – hence the name, from 'lucid' (clear or easy to understand). There are many variants of Lucida, including serif (Fax, Bright), sans-serif (Sans, Sans Unicode, Grande, Sans Typewriter) and scripts (Blackletter, Calligraphy, Handwriting). Many are released with other software, most notably Microsoft Office. Bigelow and Holmes, together with the (now defunct) TeX vendor Y&Y, extended the Lucida family with a full set of TeX mathematical symbols, making it one of the few typefaces that provide full-featured text and mathematical typesetting within TeX. Lucida is still licensed commercially through the TUG store as well through their own web store. The fonts are occasionally updated. Key features The Lucida fonts have a l ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |