Regular

Greta Text Variable

Latin

Ως σύμπαν νοείται το σύνολο του χώρου και του χρόνου και των περιεχομένων τους. Σύμφωνα με την επιστήμη το σύμπαν αφορά το χωροχρονικό συνεχές, στο οποίο περιλαμβάνεται το σύνολο της ύλης, της ενέργειας και της πληροφορίας. Το σύμπαν, στις μεγάλες διαστάσεις του, είναι αντικείμενο μελέτης της επιστήμης της αστροφυσικής. Στις πολύ μικρές διαστάσεις το σύμπαν το εξερευνά η κβαντική μηχανική. Ενδιάμεσα προσπαθούν να κατανοήσουν τη λειτουργία του και την υπόστασή του όλες οι επιστήμες. Οι γνωστές μορφές της ενέργειας, όπως το φως, η θερμότητα κτλ. συνδέονται με την ύλη μέσα από σχέσεις ανταλλαγής. Σύμφωνα με τη σύγχρονη Φυσική, υπάρχει ισοδυναμία μεταξύ ύλης και ενέργειας, οπότε και οι δύο συνολικά απαρτίζουν το σύμπαν. Μέσα στο σύμπαν ενδεχομένως περιλαμβάνεται και η σκοτεινή ύλη, όχι όμως απαραίτητα και η σκοτεινή ενέργεια. Το σύμπαν αφορά την τωρινή κατάσταση της ύλης και της ενέργειάς του. Η εικόνα της παρατήρησης αστέρων, γαλαξιών κλπ είναι ψευδής σε ότι αφορά το παρόν και δεν αποτελεί κατ’ ανάγκη τη μορφή που έχει το σύμπαν σήμερα, καθώς ένας αστέρας π.χ. μπορεί να έχει πάψει να υπάρχει και να μην το γνωρίζουμε ακόμα γιατί δεν έχει ταξιδέψει ως εμάς η πληροφορία αυτή μέσω του φωτός. Υποθέτοντας πως στο σύμπαν δεν εισρέει ύλη ή ενέργεια, και ούτε χάνονται από αυτό, η εικόνα του παρελθόντος, με βάση την ισοδυναμία ύλης και ενέργειας, μας βοηθάει να εκτιμήσουμε ποσοτικά το σύνολό τους. Θεωρίες όπως αυτή της μεγάλης έκρηξης εκτιμούν ότι το σχήμα του Σύμπαντος είναι, το πιθανότερο, υπερσφαιρικό. Μια υπερσφαίρα (η οποία ορίζεται σε 4 διαστάσεις) μπορεί να νοηθεί αφαιρετικά ως μια σφαίρα τριών διαστάσεων της οποίας η ακτίνα συνεχώς μεταβάλλεται, μοιάζοντας με μπαλόνι που διαστέλλεται.

Greta Serif is a contemporary typeface family specifically designed for the demands of newspaper printing, available in three optical sizes (<a href="https://www.typotheque.com/fonts/greta_text">Text</a>, <a href="https://www.typotheque.com/fonts/greta_display/">Display</a> and <a href="https://www.typotheque.com/fonts/greta_grande/">Grande</a>). Greta Text has been designed as a body text typeface for print and online newspapers, and for editorial projects that demand highly functional typography. It has been tested in countless editorial projects, and dozens of languages, and has proved to be a very effective typeface for long continuous text with modern flavour unburdened by traditions. In combination with other Greta versions, it offers a complete palette of typographic choices.

Greta Text, Design Concept

Design Concept

The unique nature of newspaper language requires adjustments to type. Acronyms and abbreviations, for example, occur very frequently in journalism, so capital letters, which serve mainly to indicate the beginnings of sentences, are typically designed to be rather large and dark. In newspaper articles the capitals must be smaller and lighter so as not to disrupt the text flow. Numerals also frequently appear in newspaper articles and must be proportioned somewhat differently than usual so that they function as an integral part of the body of text. Greta Text was designed from the outset to respond directly to these special demands of newspaper printing.

Greta Text, proportions of numerals

Proportions of Capitals and Numbers

Newspaper printing poses special challenges for font designers. Despite newspaper printing having undergone significant improvements, it is still inferior to most book printing and requires letter shapes which are resistant to the distortion that can be caused by high-speed web presses and cheap paper. Greta Serif, with its three optical sizes, is specifically designed to address this issue: the Text cuts are designed for the main text between the sizes of 8 and 11pt, Display cuts are for headlines between 14 and 21pt, and Grande is designed for the largest titles, mastheads and eye-catching graphics.

Greta Text, Optical Sizes

Optical Sizes

Each weight of Greta Text includes nine different kinds of numerals. Proportional lining figures come as default figures in Greta Text. It also, however, includes old-style 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 for small caps, choose the specially designed Small Caps numerals applicable via OpenType layout features. When you take a licence for this font you can choose the default numeral variants inside the fonts.

Greta Text, numeral styles

Numeral styles

Greta Text 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.

Greta Text, International Typography

International Typography

Each weight of Greta Text comes in three different grades. Grades are similar to weights, except the differences in weight between grades are very subtle and the grades use the same metrics information. When setting text with different font grades, the font widths remain the same, so the text doesn’t reflow. Grades can help in fine-tuning the typographic colour of the text, or they can be useful when combining positive and negative text (light text on dark background), and trying to achieve even typographic ‘colour’ of the text. Because the white reflects more light than dark colours, it is impossible to achieve the same appearance of the text on a light background as on dark ones using the same font weight. The grades are available only as part of the complete package and cannot be purchased separately.

Greta Text, grades

Grades

Bold

Arabic

Arabic transliteration

Central Kurdish

Gurmukhi (Punjabi)

Mazanderani

Pashto

Persian (Farsi)

Sindhi

Urdū

Armenian

Cyrillic

Abaza

Abkhaz

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

Basque

Batak Toba

Bedawiyet

Bekwarra

Bemba

Bena

Bench

Benga

Bete-Bendi

Bikol

Bilen

Bini

Bislama

Blackfoot

Bokobaru

Breton

Buginese

C’Lela

Cahungwarya

Catalan

Cebuano

Chamorro

Cheyenne

Chichewa

Chiduruma

Chiga

Chimborazo Highland Quichua

Chokwe

Chuukese

Colognian

Comorian, Latin

Cornish

Corsican

Croatian

Czech

Danish

Dawro

Delaware

Dikaka

Dogon, Toro So

Dutch

Ebira

Efik

Emai-Iuleha-Ora

Embu

English

Esperanto

Estonian

Ezaa

Faroese

Fijian

Filipino

Finnish

French

Frisian

Friulian

Fuliiru

Galician

Gamo

Ganda

Gbaya (Sudan)

German

Gheg Albanian

Gikuyu

Gofa

Gourmanchéma

Greenlandic

Guaraní

Gungu

Gusii

Design

Contributors

Greta Text is a contemporary typeface family specifically designed for the demands of print and online newspapers; it consists of four primary text weights (each in three grades) and is optimised for use at small sizes.

Greta Text