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世界（world）一词在现代社会意为对所有事物的代称。在大多数的语境中，“世界”的含义更为狭义，经常与地球及其中的所有生命、与整个人类或与国际洲际范围相关联。在这个意义上，世界历史是指整个人类的历史，而世界政治是研究超越国家和大陆的问题的政治科学学科。诸如“世界宗教”、“世界语言”、“世界政府”、“世界大战”、“世界人口”、“世界经济”或及“世界冠军”等术语亦是如此。中文源自佛教概念，由“世”（时间）和“界”（空间）组合而成的世界（lokadhātu），即所谓由所有时间和空间组成的万事万物。唐神龙元年（705），《楞严经》具有文字记载。英语中为“world”，源自古英语“weorold”，指“人间”。现代翻译源自1912年《哲学字汇》将日语“sekai”与“world”、“cosmos”作为对应。“世界”在现代是人类文明所有一切的代称。狭义来讲，通常指人类现今所生活居住的地球，而更偏重于空间。在许多场合下，也以全球、环球（寰球）、环宇（寰宇）、国际、万国等词作为代称。在古代也常以天地、天下、人间、世间、世上、万物、自然等指代。人类所知的地球世界可以用一张世界地图来描述，分为七大洲四大洋。广义来讲，可等于宇宙，即包含了地球之外的空间。“宇宙”一词来源于古汉语，也意为时空的总和。英语中用拉丁词源的“universe”或希腊词源的“cosmos”代指地球世界和地外宇宙的总和。人类强调全世界的某一领域或体系时，也可用“世界”冠名，如植物世界、动物世界等。人类也可预测或设计未来的世界以及想像中的或许不存在的世界，叫做未来世界、虚构世界；当用现代科技手段构造和呈现不存在于现实的世界时，称为虚拟世界或虚拟现实。

Instead of seeking inspiration only in the past, Fedra Serif is a synthetic typeface where aesthetic and technological decisions are linked. Fedra combines seemingly contradictory ways of constructing characters into one harmonious font. Its humanistic roots (the rhythm of the handwriting) is balanced with rational drawing (a coarse computer-screen grid). Fedra Serif has a large x-height, open counters, and simplified stroke terminations that render predictably in small sizes even in low-resolution display.

Fedra Serif, Design Concept

Design Concept

What makes text easy to read is not just well-designed letters, but also balanced horizontal and vertical dimensions of the text. Fedra Serif is designed for continuous reading, where it is critical that the counter-shapes relate inextricably to the outside of the letters. Typefaces for easy reading feature rhythmic stem intervals and optically interrelated space between letters, which create a harmonious rhythm of the text, aiding the reading process and offering optimal legibility. Additionally, Fedra Serif has unusual vertical stems, which get thicker towards the baseline, giving the typeface stability – a comfortable weight to read even in the smallest of sizes.

Fedra Serif, typeface for a long text

A Typeface for long-form text

Each weight of Fedra Serif includes nine different kinds of numerals. Proportional old-style figures come as default figures in Fedra Serif. It also, however, includes lining figures, tabular numerals (both lining and old-style), small caps numerals, superior, inferior, circled and circled inverted numerals. For the running text, old-style figures work best; for capital setting, use lining figures; and with small caps, choose the specially designed Small Caps numerals applicable via OpenType layout features. When you take a licence of this font, you can choose the default numeral variants inside the fonts.

Fedra Serif font, numeral styles

Numeral Styles

Fedra Serif 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, Chinese, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Latin and Thai.

Fedra Serif, International Typography

International Typography

Commissioned by HarperCollins publisher for their <a href="https://www.typotheque.com/articles/microtypography-designing-the-new-collins-dictionaries">Collins dictionaries</a>, we designed special fonts that allow for the transcription of linguistic data using the International Phonetic Alphabet. This is a specific glyph-set for the needs of the Collins dictionary, and not a generic IPA font, so please consult the character set to see if it fits your use case, before purchasing the font.

Fedra Serif, International Phonetic Alphabet

Phonetic Fonts

CJK (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) typography uses different conventions compared to Latin typesetting. <a href="https://www.typotheque.com/articles/typesetting-cjk-text">Read this article</a> to learn about the main typographic differences, including vertical and horizontal text orientation, line height requirements, text alignment, hyphenation practices and the distinct rules for line breaks and punctuation placement.

CJK typesetting principles

Chinese, Japanese and Korean typesetting

Chinese characters vary across East Asia due to regional language evolution and reform. Although Unicode unifies them into a single Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) block, fonts also need to align with regional preferences. <a href="https://www.typotheque.com/articles/understanding-cjk-regional-character-variants">Read about the reasons behind these variations and how to go about choosing the right fonts</a>. When you order a Typotheque CJK font, you actually receive three fonts, each optimised for a different region. 

CJK regional character variants

Understanding CJK regional character variants

Arabic

Arabic transliteration

Gurmukhi (Punjabi)

Mazanderani

Persian (Farsi)

Urdū

Armenian

Cyrillic

Abaza

Adyghe

Altai

Avar

Azeri (Cyrillic)

Azeri (Latin)

Balkar

Bashkir

Belarusian

Bosnian

Bulgarian

Buryat

Chechen

Chuvash

Crimean Tatar

Dargin

Dungan

Evenki

Gagauz

Ingush

Kabardian

Kalmyk

Karakalpak

Kazakh

Khakas

Kirghyz

Komi

Koryak

Kumyk

Lezgian

Macedonian

Manci

Mansi

Mari

Mongolian

Montenegrin

Mordvin (Erzya)

Mordvin (Moksha)

Muslim Tat, Latin

Nanai

Nenets

Nogai

Ossetic

Romanian

Russian

Rusyn 

Selkup

Serbian

Shor

Tabasaran

Tajik (Cyrillic)

Talysh, Latin

Tatar

Tsakhur

Turkmen

Tuva

Tuvan

Udmurt

Uighur

Ukrainian

Uzbek

Western Mari

Yakut

Georgian

Greek

Greek (modern)

Hebrew

Judeo-Persian

Ladino

Abua

Achinese

Achuar-Shiwiar

Acoli

Adara

Afar

Afrikaans

Ahtna

Alago

Albanian

Alekano

Aleut

Anaang

Ao Naga

Arabic, Chadian Spoken

Aragonese

Aromanian

Asturian

Awak

Aymara

Baka

Balinese

Banda, West Central

Bangwinji

Bapuku

Bari

Basa

Basque

Batak Toba

Bedawiyet

Bekwarra

Bemba

Bena

Bench

Benga

Bikol

Bilen

Bini

Bislama

Blackfoot

Bokobaru

Breton

Bube

Buginese

C’Lela

Cahungwarya

Catalan

Cebuano

Central Yupik

Chamorro

Cheyenne

Chichewa

Chickasaw

Chiduruma

Chiga

Chimborazo Highland Quichua

Chipewyan

Chokwe

Chuukese

Colognian

Comorian

Cornish

Corsican

Crioulo, Upper Guinea

Croatian

Czech

Danish

Dawro

Delaware

Dikaka

Dogrib

Dutch

Ebira

Efik

Ekajuk

Ekpeye

Emai-Iuleha-Ora

Embu

English

Esan

Esperanto

Estonian

Ezaa

Faroese

Fijian

Filipino

Finnish

French

Frisian

Friulian

Fuliiru

Galician

Gamo

Ganda

Gbaya (Sudan)

Thai

Chinese

Cantonese (Simplified)

Japanese

Fedra Serif is a contemporary serif typeface with short ascenders and descenders intended to work in very small sizes. Its humanistic roots are balanced by rational digital drawing.

Fedra Serif

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