[Tabular figures are monospaced, meaning each numeral has the same total character width, allowing numerals to align vertically in tables and other columns of figures.]
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Fonts Help & other pages
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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
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
All the characters of Fedra Mono share the same widths, which makes it suitable for tabular setting when the layout benefits from vertical alignment of the characters. Typical examples would be spreadsheets, computer code, or...
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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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Design concept
Fedra Sans Screen was designed to work equally well on paper and on the computer screen. A contemporary sans serif typeface developed for visual identities, designed to work equally well on paper and on the computer screen....
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Greta explores a multidimensional continuum of possibilities, going beyond the relationship between weight and width, dissolving the boundaries between display and text typefaces. It is a powerful toolbox...
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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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What is font subsetting?
Regular Typotheque fonts support over 100 languages and advanced typographic features such as small caps, different numeral styles, alternative characters and special symbols. Web browsers, however, can access only a small fraction of those...
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Can I also use my locally installed fonts for test purposes?
Yes you can. Our CSS is designed to recognise local fonts, and if the given font is installed locally it is used first. In that case the webfonts are not used, so no bandwidth is consumed.
When you use locally installed fonts, you will not...
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How can I use different numerals in Microsoft Word?
Software applications which do not support OpenType layout features ( check which software does support OTF features ) can only display the default forms of letters and numbers. Typotheque fonts designed for small sizes usually use Old Style...
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Choosing numerals
OpenType fonts generally contain different numeral styles within one font. These different types of figures are controlled by your typesetting application (such as Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, or Quark Xpress 7 – all 'OpenType-Savvy'). Please note...
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Screen fonts for optimal legibility on the computer monitor
After launching our own webfont system, Typotheque now offers fonts specially engineered and optimised for exceptional readability on the computer monitor. These fonts use TrueType outlines, and were manually hinted to achieve crystal-clear results...
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