FF Basic Gothic Pro Light Italic

Basic Gothic is a sans serif type family of eight weights plus matching italics. It was designed by Hannes von Döhren and Livius F. Dietzel in 2009/10. Influenced by the early sans serif typefaces of the 19th century and developed for today’s highest standards, they created a functional family optimized for maximum legibility.
Basic Gothic has a functional, basic look, being willful but pleasant at the same time. The unique letter forms of Gill or Antique Olive inspired the designers to search for exceptional yet legible proportions. At the same time, the letters are stripped down to their basic forms, with precise curves and straight lines, making Basic Gothic extremely versatile for a multitude of applications. Basic Gothic performs especially well in small sizes.
The heavy weights have stronger contrasts and unfold their strength in bigger sizes. They have an eye-catching appearance in newspaper or magazine headlines.
Basic Gothic is equipped for complex, professional typography. The OpenType Pro fonts have an extended character set to support Central and Eastern European as well as Western European languages. Each font includes small caps, fractions, old style, lining and tabular numbers, scientific superior/inferior figures, alternates and a set of arrows.
Download FF Basic Gothic Specimen PDF (451 KB).

Basic Gothic is a sans serif type family of eight weights plus matching italics. It was designed by Hannes von Döhren and Livius F. Dietzel in 2009/10. Influenced by the early sans serif typefaces of the 19th century and developed for today’s highest standards, they created a functional family optimized for maximum legibility.
Basic Gothic has a functional, basic look, being willful but pleasant at the same time. The unique letter forms of Gill or Antique Olive inspired the designers to search for exceptional yet legible proportions. At the same time, the letters are stripped down to their basic forms, with precise curves and straight lines, making Basic Gothic extremely versatile for a multitude of applications. Basic Gothic performs especially well in small sizes.
The heavy weights have stronger contrasts and unfold their strength in bigger sizes. They have an eye-catching appearance in newspaper or magazine headlines.
Basic Gothic is equipped for complex, professional typography. The OpenType Pro fonts have an extended character set to support Central and Eastern European as well as Western European languages. Each font includes small caps, fractions, old style, lining and tabular numbers, scientific superior/inferior figures, alternates and a set of arrows.
Download FF Basic Gothic Specimen PDF (451 KB).

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Access All Alternates This feature makes all variations of a selected character accessible. This serves several purposes: An application may not support the feature by which the desired glyph would normally be accessed; the user may need a glyph outside the context supported by the normal substitution, or the user may not know what feature produces the desired glyph. Since many-to-one substitutions are not covered, ligatures would not appear in this table unless they were variant forms of another ligature.
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Small Capitals From Capitals This feature turns capital characters into small capitals. It is generally used for words which would otherwise be set in all caps, such as acronyms, but which are desired in small-cap form to avoid disrupting the flow of text.
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Contextual Alternates When available, replaces default glyphs with alternate forms which provide better joining behavior.
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Case-sensitive Forms Shifts various punctuation marks up to a position that works better with all-capital sequences or sets of lining figures; also changes oldstyle figures to lining figures.
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Denominators Replaces selected figures which follow a slash with denominator figures.
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Fractions Replaces figures separated by a slash with 'common' (diagonal) fractions.
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Historical Forms This feature replaces the default (current) forms with the historical alternates, e.g. the long form of s or the old Fraktur k.
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Lining Figures This feature changes selected figures from oldstyle to the default lining form.
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Numerators Replaces selected figures which precede a slash with numerator figures, and replaces the typographic slash with the fraction slash.
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Oldstyle Figures This feature changes selected figures from the default lining style to oldstyle form.
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Ordinals Replaces default alphabetic glyphs with the corresponding ordinal forms for use after figures.
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Proportional Figures Replaces figure glyphs set on uniform (tabular) widths with corresponding glyphs set on glyph-specific (proportional) widths. Tabular widths will generally be the default, but this cannot be safely assumed. Of course this feature would not be present in monospaced designs.
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Stylistic Alternates Replaces the default forms with stylistic alternates. Note that there may be more than one stylistic alternate for a given character.
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Scientific Inferiors Replaces lining or oldstyle figures with inferior figures (smaller glyphs which sit lower than the standard baseline, primarily for chemical or mathematical notation). May also replace lowercase characters with alphabetic inferiors.
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Small Caps This feature turns lowercase characters into small capitals. Forms related to small capitals, such as oldstyle figures, may be included.
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Stylistic Set Stylistic alternatives grouped as sets.
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Subscript The "subs" feature may replace a default glyph with a subscript glyph, or it may combine a glyph substitution with positioning adjustments for proper placement.
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Superscript Replaces lining or oldstyle figures with superior figures (primarily for footnote indication), and replaces lowercase letters with superior letters (primarily for abbreviated French titles).
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Tabular Figures Replaces figure glyphs set on proportional widths with corresponding glyphs set on uniform (tabular) widths. Tabular widths will generally be the default, but this cannot be safely assumed. Of course this feature would not be present in monospaced designs.
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Slashed Zero Some fonts contain both a default form of zero, and an alternative form which uses a diagonal slash through the counter. Especially in condensed designs, it can be difficult to distinguish between 0 and O (zero and capital O) in any situation where capitals and lining figures may be arbitrarily mixed. This feature allows the user to change from the default 0 to a slashed form.
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