FF Fontesque Text Pro Regular
What’s the idea behind FF Fontesque?
I wanted to do something that was very loose, with really extreme proportions, but at the same time it would be beautifully drawn. And although it would be a “novelty” face, it would set like real type, with a bold and a proper italic. And be original. That was the challenge. FF Fontesque is based on several concurrent design principles. Like animation; this is the idea that the characters are alive, moving, and can’t stand still. It's expressed globally in the irregularity of size, varying angles of the uprights, and non-adherence to the baseline. Individually, each character is stretching, with sinuous curves and proportions that don’t divide evenly: each letter has a small part and a big part.
Doesn’t that harm legibility?
Quite the opposite. In FF Fontesque I maximized the irregularity of the texture of white space to improve legibility. If you look at the word “sea” in Helvetica, with its six similar spaces, you can see what I've tried to avoid.
FF Fontesque Text:
The original Fontesque is a graceful, delicate face - a display face, really. So for a wider variety of body-copy use, the addition of a more robust “text” version is a good idea. The weight is slightly heavier, the hairlines are thicker and the serifs bigger. Also, the sidebearings are wider. However, I’ve kept some details fine to preserve the “cut” of the face. But there’s another reason for a text version. I get the impression, from the way I've seen Fontesque used over the past few years, that in many instances people would prefer a little more heft. You know the kind of thing that can go wrong: someone uses Fontesque to surprint a busy photo, and it's not quite strong enough, so they add a drop shadow, but it still doesn’t look right, because the hairlines are so fine. A text version would help here too, at display size.
FF Fontesque Sans:
Introducing the typeface that belongs in every food cupboard, uh, fonts folder, Nick Shinn has taken his popular FF Fontesque, peeled off the serifs, thrown it in a pot with some Helvetica, added a dash of Swiss, and cooked to perfection. Mmm, enjoy!
FF Fontesque Display:
With the publication of the OpenType Pro version, besides more language supports, additional alternate glpyhs and ornaments, a few more new Display weights complete the family to perfection.
Download FF Fontesque PDF SpecimenWhat’s the idea behind FF Fontesque?
I wanted to do something that was very loose, with really extreme proportions, but at the same time it would be beautifully drawn. And although it would be a “novelty” face, it would set like real type, with a bold and a proper italic. And be original. That was the challenge. FF Fontesque is based on several concurrent design principles. Like animation; this is the idea that the characters are alive, moving, and can’t stand still. It's expressed globally in the irregularity of size, varying angles of the uprights, and non-adherence to the baseline. Individually, each character is stretching, with sinuous curves and proportions that don’t divide evenly: each letter has a small part and a big part.
Doesn’t that harm legibility?
Quite the opposite. In FF Fontesque I maximized the irregularity of the texture of white space to improve legibility. If you look at the word “sea” in Helvetica, with its six similar spaces, you can see what I've tried to avoid.
FF Fontesque Text:
The original Fontesque is a graceful, delicate face - a display face, really. So for a wider variety of body-copy use, the addition of a more robust “text” version is a good idea. The weight is slightly heavier, the hairlines are thicker and the serifs bigger. Also, the sidebearings are wider. However, I’ve kept some details fine to preserve the “cut” of the face. But there’s another reason for a text version. I get the impression, from the way I've seen Fontesque used over the past few years, that in many instances people would prefer a little more heft. You know the kind of thing that can go wrong: someone uses Fontesque to surprint a busy photo, and it's not quite strong enough, so they add a drop shadow, but it still doesn’t look right, because the hairlines are so fine. A text version would help here too, at display size.
FF Fontesque Sans:
Introducing the typeface that belongs in every food cupboard, uh, fonts folder, Nick Shinn has taken his popular FF Fontesque, peeled off the serifs, thrown it in a pot with some Helvetica, added a dash of Swiss, and cooked to perfection. Mmm, enjoy!
FF Fontesque Display:
With the publication of the OpenType Pro version, besides more language supports, additional alternate glpyhs and ornaments, a few more new Display weights complete the family to perfection.
Download FF Fontesque PDF SpecimenBuy the font: FF Fontesque Text Pro Regular is available in these packages (best values are at the top)
| FF Fontesque Text Pro | 4 fonts | $189.00 |
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| FF Fontesque Text Pro Regular | 1 font | $59.00 |
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Character SetOpenType Features Hover over a feature to learn more. Click a feature to filter Character Set view.- Show All Glyphs
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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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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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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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Standard Ligatures Replaces a sequence of glyphs with a single glyph, e.g. 'fi', 'fl'. This feature is enabled by default and cannot currently be disabled.
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Lining Figures This feature changes selected figures from oldstyle to the default lining form.
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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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Ornaments Gives the user access to ornament glyphs (e.g. fleurons, dingbats and border elements), either by replacing the bullet character with a selection from the full set of available ornaments, or replacing specific "lower ASCII" characters with ornaments assigned to them.
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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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Stylistic Set Stylistic alternatives grouped as sets.
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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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