10/11/2023 0 Comments Humanist typeface serif![]() ![]() One potential source of confusion in Calibri is a visible homoglyph, a pair of easily confused characters: the lowercase letter L and the uppercase letter i (l and I) of the Latin script are effectively indistinguishable this is true of many other common fonts, however. Some features in Calibri remain unsupported by Office, including true small caps, all-caps spacing, superscript and subscript glyphs and the ability to create arbitrary fractions these may be accessed using programs such as Adobe InDesign. Calibri makes extensive use of sophisticated OpenType formatting it features a range of ligatures as well as lining and text figures, indices (numbers enclosed by circles) up to 20, and an alternate f and g (shown in sample) accessible by enabling the fourth and fifth stylistic sets. The typeface includes characters from Latin, Latin extended, Greek, Cyrillic and Hebrew scripts. Its sloped form is a "true italic" with handwriting influences, which are seen in many modern sans-serif typefaces. Characteristics Ĭalibri features subtly rounded stems and corners that are visible at larger sizes. The other fonts in the same group are Cambria, Candara, Consolas, Constantia and Corbel. All start with the letter C to reflect that they were designed to work well with Microsoft's ClearType text rendering system, a text rendering engine designed to make text clearer to read on liquid-crystal display monitors. Ĭalibri is part of the ClearType Font Collection, a suite of fonts from various designers released with Windows Vista. De Groot described its subtly rounded design as having "a warm and soft character". In Office 2007, it replaced Times New Roman as the default typeface in Word and replaced Arial as the default in PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and WordPad. It was designed by Luc(as) de Groot in 2002–2004 and released to the general public in 2007, with Microsoft Office 2007 and Windows Vista. Other custom humanist sans include the Paris Metro’s Parisine, and the similarly named Brusseline for Brussels’ Metro system.Luc(as) de Groot (Standard Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, and Hebrew) Mamoun Sakkal (Arabic) Ruben Tarumian (Armenian and Georgian) Ĭalibri ( / k ə ˈ l iː b r i/) is a digital sans-serif typeface family in the humanist or modern style. The London Underground’s Johnston Sans is probably the most famous of these, although I see it as a geometric/humanist hybrid, rather than a true humanist sans. Hong Kong’s MTR uses it, and I’ve used it pretty extensively in my own maps.Īs well as these commercially available fonts, many transit agencies use their own custom typefaces that are humanist sans serif. (You actually can’t go wrong with most of Spiekermann’s sans serif typefaces, as many of them were specifically designed for wayfinding or road signage.)įrutiger – originally designed as a wayfinding typeface for Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport in 1968 – is also popular, and is used here by Auckland and Rotterdam.Īdobe’s Myriad Pro is also used quite a lot: it has a lot of weights and widths, so it’s very versatile. One of the most popular humanist sans serif fonts used in transit map design is Erik Spiekermann’s FF Meta – I’ve featured examples from Zurich, Vancouver, BC and Rio de Janeiro, which does some terrible things to a lovely typeface. With less “rules” to their construction, there’s a much greater variety of letter forms – meaning it’s easier to find a typeface that projects its own unique personality upon your map, which can be good to give that vital sense of “place” to your map and help it stand out from the crowd. Compared to the grotesque and geometric categories, humanist sans typefaces almost calligraphic, with a natural variation in line weight and open characters that enhance legibility. ![]() The third – and most diverse – category of sans serif typefaces is known as humanist sans.
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