[Small caps are small versions of uppercase characters designed to harmonise with surrounding lowercase letters.]
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Design concept
An elegant typeface suitable for setting books and magazines. Brioni developed spontaneously from practice with a broad-nib pen, but the result is a hybrid of calligraphic influences and subtle manipulation of the stroke...
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Design concept
Brioni Sans is an elegant, humanist sans serif typeface suitable for both body and display text. It has been designed to complement Brioni , a serif typeface, but obviously it works well with other typefaces, or even on its...
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Design concept
A sturdy slab serif for text of all sizes, but especially suitable for fine print. Its proportions and colours make it suitable for any running text. A highly functional typeface family that is easy to work with and inviting...
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Design concept
Charlie is a slab serif typeface created for use in print and exhibition settings. An affable slab serif, Charlie’s personality is clear and direct, yet warm and polite. Its design is restrained in approach, yet with narrow...
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Design concept
Elementar is a parametric font system designed to bring more typographic flexibility to digital screens. Elementar embraces and explores the unique properties of digital media: the pixel, the coarse resolution grid, and the...
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Design concept
Fedra Sans reflects the original design brief: it humanises the communicated message and adds simple, informal elegance. An important criterion was to create a typeface which works equally well on paper and on the computer...
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Differences between OpenType Std and OpenType Pro
If you only work with Latin-based languages (e.g. English, French, Polish, Czech or Turkish) then our OpenType Std fonts will meet your needs. If you also require support of Vietnamese, Russian or Greek, then you’ll need OpenType Pro fonts. Both...
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Using Small Caps in OpenType
Since the OpenType font format allows more than 65,000 characters to reside within a single font file, there is now no need to have separate fonts for small capitals when using an OpenType-savvy application such as Adobe InDesign, Illustrator or...
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OpenType features
Many of the special characters in our typefaces are activated by turning on the appropriate features in your application. For example, you can select a segment of text and convert it to small caps or to superior letters without having to retype it....
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Common font abbreviations and terms
OTF - OpenType Font
PS - PostScript Font
TTF - TrueType Font
Std - OpenType Standard encoding
Pro - OpenType Pro encoding
TF - Tabular Figures
LF - Lining Figures
OsF - Old Style Figures
SC - Small Capitals
CE - Central...
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Small Caps in OpenType
Since the OpenType font format allows more than 65,000 characters to reside within a single font file, there is now no need to have separate fonts for small capitals when using an OpenType-savvy application such as Adobe InDesign, Illustrator or...
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Webfonts sites (part 1)
Looking at the statistics of Typotheque webfont service led to the discovery of some brilliant websites using our webfonts. We are now pleased to highlight some of them.
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Plan Grotesque 2.0
Plan Grotesque has been now updated with real small caps. This update is available for free to all registered users.
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