Typotheque

Fedra Serif Phonetic

Design concept
The fonts consist of more than 330 linguistic symbols, letters, and diacritical marks for use in dictionaries, language guides, linguistics texts, or wherever else spoken sounds need to be typographically represented. Fedra Serif A IPA conforms to the IPA glyph complement finalized at the 1989 Kiel conference (with the exception of contour tones).
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Dictionary use
Harper Collins Publishers commissioned the designing of Fedra Serif Phonetic, and it was used for the first time in the Desktop Edition of the Collins English Dictionary in September 2004. The fonts are now being applied across a range which amounts to 150 titles published every year in a very wide range of formats and languages.
Contrast
Fedra Serif A Phonetic is the first full IPA font to treat the glyphs as individual letterforms and is drawn according to the same principles as Fedra Serif rather than just mirroring existing glyphs, which results in incorrect weight distribution.
Authors
Fedra Serif Phonetic was designed in 2004 by Peter Biľak.