Under the numerous requests of expansion of the essential set, I finally completed the PragmataPro Fraktur typeface.
I designed numbers, lowercase numbers are default but uppercase ones are available via OpenType feature Lining Figures (lnum). s lowercase is available also in historical version enabling OpenType feature Historical Forms (hist) The set includes for the first time, I suppose, the unreleased design for Frakturalphabets of glyphs like currency symbols (€ $ £ ¢ ¥) the ampersand (&) etc. I designed all these unseen before glyphs in Fraktur using the priciples used in the Middle Ages: slants of the parts of the outlines (55° and 72°), variable weights of these parts and modular horizontal rhythm.
I also designed ligatures to improve the readability and to respect North European tradition. There are two kind of hyphen, endash, emdash and equal: default ones at 55° and the alternative at 0°, enabling using OpenType Stylistic Set 01 feature (ss01).
If you are interested to see more about this upgrade visit PragmataPro Fraktur page.
Unicode U+270A RAISED FIST added to the latest PragmataPro font and variable font release. — all weights: completed the Unicode Dingbats set for Mono and Modular-spaced versions — all weights: adjusted spacing of the ̌ caron symbol U+02C7 spacing to 1024 em, the caron accent U+030C remains at 0 spacing. — all weights: fixed TrueType …
Thanks to the numerous suggestions arrived, PragmataPro now is even a more complete professional typeface: — Added Extra Bow Drawing symbols suggested by Dmtri Nesteruk Some month ago Dmtri Nesteruk wrote me an email with a sketched good idea: to add a bullet to some used box drawing glyphs. The result is very interesting! By …
Seitu™ born with the goal to be one of the most readable fonts starting from the Bob Noorda’s coop logo. After years of testing I can affirm that it is one of the most readable font designed until now. Take a look! This post is also available in 中文.
After the successful selling of Abitare Sans I decided to add and improve some glyphs ➊ Improvements Almost all the design of the main Latin letters was changed to improve text readability. All is more proportional and harmonious now. The design of the curly quotes are changed to be more recognizable in texts. Question mark, …
PragmataPro Fraktur is completed!
Under the numerous requests of expansion of the essential set, I finally completed the PragmataPro Fraktur typeface.
I designed numbers, lowercase numbers are default but uppercase ones are available via OpenType feature Lining Figures (
lnum).slowercase is available also in historical version enabling OpenType feature Historical Forms (hist)The set includes for the first time, I suppose, the unreleased design for Fraktur alphabets of glyphs like currency symbols (
€ $ £ ¢ ¥) the ampersand (&) etc.I designed all these unseen before glyphs in Fraktur using the priciples used in the Middle Ages: slants of the parts of the outlines (55° and 72°), variable weights of these parts and modular horizontal rhythm.
I also designed ligatures to improve the readability and to respect North European tradition.
There are two kind of
hyphen,endash,emdashandequal: default ones at 55° and the alternative at 0°, enabling using OpenType Stylistic Set 01 feature (ss01).If you are interested to see more about this upgrade visit PragmataPro Fraktur page.
This post is also available in 中文.
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