Fedra Sans Condensed
Fedra Sans Condensed is a space-saving humanist sans for use on screen and for print where differentiated letter widths can be helpful when setting complex type hierarchies is required.
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Design Concept
Fedra Sans Condensed is a space-saving version of Fedra Sans, about 72% narrower than the original version. Because it is also available as a variable font, you can choose any width along the width axis. 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 that works equally well on paper and on the computer screen. The typeface attempts to reconcile two opposing design approaches: the rigidity of a typeface designed for the computer screen and the flexibility of handwriting.
International Typography
Fedra Sans Condensed is part of the Typotheque Multiscript font collection, supporting at least nine different writing scripts, and over four billion people worldwide. Typotheque Multiscript are fonts that cover Arabic, Armenian, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Latin and Thai.
Two Flavours
Fedra Sans Condensed includes some unusually shaped characters, which became identifiable characteristics of the typeface. It was mainly the prolonged ‘f’, the open ‘6’, ‘9’, ‘b’, ‘P’, and the diamond-shaped dots that have added to the identity of Fedra Sans. The alternative version of Fedra Sans removes those peculiarities as well as a dozen other features for the sake of consistency. Choose one according to how much spark your text needs.
Numeral Styles
Each weight of Fedra Sans Condensed includes eight different kinds of numerals. Proportional lining figures come as default figures in Fedra Sans. It also, however, includes Old-style figures, Tabular numerals (both Lining and Old-style), superior, inferior, circled and circled inverted numerals. For the running text, old-style figures work best; for capital setting, use lining figures available via OpenType layout features. When you take a licence of this font, you can choose the default numeral variants inside the fonts.
