Ping Round
Ping Round is a resolutely modern, approachable typeface with fluid stroke structure. The shapes of Ping Round are warm and unreserved, acting as a counterpoint to the soulless corporate communication that is the norm today.
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Ping Round is a resolutely modern, approachable typeface with fluid stroke structure. The shapes of Ping Round are warm and unreserved, acting as a counterpoint to the soulless corporate communication that is the norm today.
A whole-world typeface
Following the example of versatile sans typefaces which transcend national borders, Ping Round also aims to be a truly international typeface, supporting not only hundreds of Latin-based languages, but also Arabic, Armenian, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Georgian, Greek, Korean, Hebrew, and Thai. The proportions of the Latin shapes were adjusted to facilitate seamless integration with all the above-mentioned writing scripts; rather than merely giving other languages their version of a Latin-based design, Ping was constructed with a global perspective from the ground up, giving it a unique voice across different cultures and making it useful to designers worldwide.
Unicase
Ping Round has a very large x-height that matches the height of the small caps. Influenced by modern typographic designs, a special unicase OpenType substitution feature is available that mixes lowercase letters and small caps, creating a fluid mix of letterforms that occupy the space between the baseline and the x-height.
Numeral Styles
Each weight of Ping Round includes nine different kinds of numerals. Lining figures come as default figures in Ping. It also, however, includes old-style figures, tabular numerals (both lining and old-style), superior, inferior, circled and circled inverted numerals. For running text, old-style figures work best; for use in capital setting, use lining figures. When you take a licence for this font, you can choose your own default numeral variant.
- DesignKristyan Sarkis (Arabic)Peter Biľak (Armenian, Cyrillic, Greek, Latin)Akaki Razmadze (Georgian)Daniel Grumer (Hebrew)Ekaluck Peanpanawate (Thai)
- ContributorsOscar Guerrero (Arabic, Hebrew, Thai)Igino Marini (Arabic, Armenian, Cyrillic, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Latin)Khajag Apelian (Armenian)Gor Jihanian (Armenian)Anya Danilova (Armenian, Cyrillic, Georgian, Greek, Latin)Elí Castellanos (Hebrew, Thai)Nikola Djurek (Latin)
- EngineeringLiang Hai (Latin)
- Released2022
Arabic
- Arabic
- Arabic transliteration
- Mazanderani
- Persian (Farsi)
Armenian
- 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
- Komi
- Koryak
- Kumyk
- Lak
- 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
- Georgian
Greek
- Greek (modern)
Hebrew
- Hebrew
- Judeo-Persian
- Ladino
Latin
- Abua
- Achinese
- Achuar-Shiwiar
- Acoli
- Adara
- Afar
- Afrikaans
- Ahtna
- Alago
- Albanian
- Alekano
- Aleut
- Anaang
- Ao Naga
- Arabic, Chadian Spoken
- Aragonese
- Aromanian
- Asturian
- Asu
- Awak
- Aymara
- Azeri (Cyrillic)
- Azeri (Latin)
- Baka
- Balinese
- Banda, West Central
- Bangwinji
- Bapuku
- Basque
- Batak Toba
- Bedawiyet
- Bekwarra
- Bemba
- Bena
- Bench
- Benga
- Bete-Bendi
- Bikol
- Bilen
- Bini
- Bislama
- Blackfoot
- Bokobaru
- Bosnian
- Breton
- Buginese
- C’Lela
- Cahungwarya
- Catalan
- Cebuano
- Central Yupik
- 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
- Gagauz
- Galician
- Gamo
- Ganda
- Gbaya (Sudan)
- German
- Gheg Albanian
- Gikuyu
- Gofa
- Gourmanchéma
- Greenlandic
- Guaraní
- Gungu
- Gusii
- Gwich’in
- Gyele
- Haitian
- Hanga
- Hassaniyya
- Hawaiian
- Hiligaynon
- Hmong
- Hopi
- Hungarian
- Hyam
- Ibani
- Icelandic
- Igbo
- Igede
- Ika
- Ikwere
- Ikwo
- Iloko
- Indonesian
- Innu
- Interlingua
- Irish Gaelic
- Italian
- Ivbie North-Okpela-Arhe
- Izere
- Izii
- Jamaican Creole English
- Javanese
- Jibu
- Jola-Fonyi
- Jola-Kasa
- Jukun Takum
- Kabuverdianu
- Kaingang
- Kalenjin
- Kamba
- Karelian
- Kashubian
- Khasi
- Kimbundu
- Kinyarwanda
- Kiribati
- Kirike
- Kirmanjki
- Kirundi
- Kombe
- Kongo
- Kunama
- Kurdish
- Kuria
- Kutep
- Kutu
- Kwanyama
- Kwere
- Kʼicheʼ
- Lakota
- Lamba
- Latgalian
- Latin
- Latvian
- Lele
- Ligurian
- Lithuanian
- Lokaa
- Lombard
- Longuda
- Low German
- Lower Sorbian
- Lozi
- Luba-Kasai
- Luguru
- Luo
- Luwo
- Luxemburgish
- Luyia
- Ma’di
- Machame
- Madurese
- Makhuwa
- Makhuwa-Meetto
- Makonde
- Malagasy
- Malay
- Maltese
- Mambila, Nigeria
- Mandinka
- Mandjak
- Mankanya
- Manx
- Māori
- Mapuche
- Marshallese
- Mbembe, Cross River
- Meru
- Minangkabau
- Mirandese
- Mohawk
- Montenegrin
- Morisyen
- Muscogee
- Muslim Tat, Latin
- Mwani
- Nara
- Navajo
- Ndamba
- Ndebele (Northern)
- Ndebele (Southern)
- Ndonga
- Neapolitan
- Ngindo
- Ngulu
- Nigerian Pidgin
- Niuean
- Norwegian
- Novial
- Nupe-Nupe-Tako
- Nyanja
- Nyankole
- Obolo
- Occitan
- Ogbah
- Oromo
- Palauan
- Pampanga
- Papiamento
- Pedi
- Picard
- Piedmontese
- Pogolo
- Pohnpeian
- Pökoot
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Punu
- Quechua
- Rarotongan
- Rendille
- Reshe
- Rhaeto-Romanic
- Rigwe
- Rinconada Bikol
- Romani
- Romanian
- Rombo
- Rwa
- Samburu
- Sámi (Inari)
- Sámi (Lule)
- Sámi (Northern)
- Sámi (Southern)
- Samoan
- Sango
- Sangu
- Sardinian
- Sassarese Sardinian
- Scots
- Scottish Gaelic
- Sena
- Serbian
- Seri
- Seychelles Creole
- Shambala
- Sheko
- Shona
- Sicilian
- Silesian
- Slovak
- Slovene
- Soga
- Somali (Latin)
- Soninke
- Sotho
- Spanish
- Sranan Tongo
- Suba
- Sudanese Arabic
- Sundanese
- Swahili
- Swahili, Congo
- Swati
- Swedish
- Swiss German
- Tahitian
- Taita
- Takwane
- Talinga-Bwisi
- Talysh, Latin
- Tedim Chin
- Tetum
- Tiv
- Tok Pisin
- Tokelauan
- Tongan
- Toposa
- Tsakhur
- Tsonga
- Tsuvadi
- Tswana
- Tula
- Tumbuka
- Turkish
- Turkmen
- Tuvalu
- Uab Meto
- Uighur
- Umbundu
- Upper Sorbian
- ut-Hun
- ut-Ma’in
- Uzbek
- Venetian
- Veps
- Vidunda
- Vietnamese
- Volapük
- Võro
- Vunjo
- Wallisian
- Walloon
- Walser
- Waray
- Warlpiri
- Wayuu
- Welsh
- Wendat
- West Albay Bikol
- Wolaytta
- Wolof
- Xavánte
- Xhosa
- Yao
- Yapese
- Yasa
- Yoruba
- Yucateco
- Zande
- Zapotec
- Zayse
- Zaza
- Zigula
- Zulu
- Zuni
Thai
- Thai
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Hollow and filled dots
ss01
In order to preserve the appropriate dot size even in its very light versions, Ping uses hollow dots in diacritics, full stops, semicolons, exclamation marks and question marks in the light styles (from Hairline to Light). Heavier styles have filled dots, which can be reversed to empty ones with the use of Stylistic Set. - gg
Simplified `g`
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Ping includes alternative version of the lower case letter ‘g’, including its accented variants. - II
Capital I with serifs
ss03
Ping includes alternative version of the capital letter ‘I’ with serifs, also for all of its accented variants. - tt
Simplified `t`
ss04
Ping includes simplified version of the lower-case letter ‘t’, also for all of its accented variants. - jj
Simplified `j`
ss05
Ping includes simplified version of the lower-case letter ‘j’, also for all of its accented variants. - ee
Cursive `e`
ss06
Ping includes cursive version of the lower-case letter ‘e’, also for all of its accented variants. - dede
Unicase
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Ping includes cusrive version of the lower-case letter ‘e’, also for all of its accented variants. - HaHa
Small Caps
smcp
Most Typotheque fonts implement the Small Caps feature. In Adobe applications you can replace lower case letters with small caps using the keyboard shortcut (⌘ + ⇧ + H), or the OpenType menu. - HaHa
All Small Capitals
smcp + c2sc
There are two methods of applying small capitals. The first one replaces only lower case letters with small caps. The second method, All Small Caps, also replaces capital letters with small caps. It also replaces regular quotation marks, exclamation points, question marks, slashes and usually also numerals with small caps variants. - (H:(H:
Case Sensitive Forms
case
When the ‘change to caps’ function is applied from within an application (not when text is typed in caps) appropriate case-sensitive forms are automatically applied. Regular brackets, parenthesis, dashes and hyphens are replaced with their capital forms. - (1)(1)
Circled numerals and arrows
dlig
The discretionary ligature feature creates real arrows when you type the combination -> (right arrow), <- (left arrow), -^ (up arrow) or ^- (down arrow). It also creates enclosed numerals when you type numerals inside parenthesis, and inverse enclosed numerals when you type numerals inside brackets. Discretionary ligatures are off by default in Adobe applications. - fifi
Standard Ligatures
liga
Standard ligatures are those which are designed to improve the readability of certain letter pairs. For example, when this feature is activated, typing ‘f’ and ‘i’ will automatically produce the ‘fi’ ligature. Using ligatures does not affect the spelling and hyphenation of your text in any way. - 1919
Proportional Old-style Figures
onum + pnum
Typotheque fonts contain various styles of numerals within one font. Proportional Lining Figures come standard in all our headline and newspaper fonts. Their proportions are specifically designed to work well with capital letters (for example, in headlines). The proportional Old-style Figures feature changes standard figures to Old-style Figures which work well in running text, as they have the same proportions as lower case letters with their ascenders and descenders. - 1919
Tabular Lining Figures
lnum + tnum
Tabular figures are for use in tables where numerals need to be aligned vertically. Tabular figures are available as a OpenType feature and have a fixed width in all weights. Typotheque fonts include both Lining and Old-style Tabular figures. - 1919
Tabular Old-style Figures
onum + tnum
Tabular figures are for use in tables where numerals need to be aligned vertically. Tabular figures are available as a OpenType feature and have a fixed width in all weights. Typotheque fonts include both Lining and Old-style Tabular figures. - 1:01:0
Vertically centered colon
calt
This stylistic set centers the colon. Same behaviour can be triggered by the Contextual Alternative feature, which is automatically applied when colon is followed by a lining numeral or a capital letter. - 2/92/9
Arbitrary Fractions
frac
Typotheque OpenType fonts already include a number of pre-designed diagonal fractions. The fraction feature allows you to create other fractions quickly and easily. - H1H1
Superiors
sups
Replaces all styles of figures (old style, tabular, lining) and letters with their superior alternates, which can be used for footnotes, formulas, etc. Superior characters are more legible than mathematically scaled characters, have a similar stroke weight, are spaced more generously, and better complement the rest of the text. - H1H1
Inferiors
sinf
Replaces all styles of figures (old style, tabular, lining) and letters with their inferior alternates, used primarily for mathematical or chemical notation. Inferior characters are more legible than mathematically scaled characters, have a similar stroke weight, are spaced more generously, and better complement the rest of the text - жж
Bulgarian Cyrillic
Bulgarian readers prefer to set text in a variation of Cyrillic that differs from the standard Cyrillic by using shapes of letters based on cursive handwriting, where letters are easier to tell apart. Typotheque fonts use standard Cyrillic forms as default, and Bulgarian Cyrillic is applied when the text is tagged as Bulgarian. When the Localised forms feature is not available, you can also apply the same forms by using a Stylistic Set. - пп
Serbian & Macedonian Cyrillic
Serbian and Macedonian Cyrillic has different preferred shapes for some italic letters, which differ from the standard Cyrillic. Typotheque fonts use standard Cyrillic forms as default, and Serbian Cyrillic italic is applied when the text is tagged as Serbian Or Macedonian. When the Localised forms feature is not available, you can also apply the same forms by using a Stylistic Set. - ՄՆՄՆ
Alternative Armenian ՄՆ
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Ping includes capital alternative Armenian letters Մ Ն that aim to reduce the white space between letters.