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Lowercase figures for Frutiger?
Posted by frauhausverstand in
8 Nov 2010 — 10:49am
8 Nov 2010 — 10:49am
Have you ever seen oldstyle figures for Font Family Frutiger LT St?
I mean, figures that have
ascenders : 6, 8
descenders : 3,4,5,7,9
x - height only : 1,2,0
Like ITC Braganza.
http://www.fonts.com/AboutFonts/Articles/fyti/OldstyleFigs.htm
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8 Nov 2010 — 11:05am
Check out Frutiger Next, which introduced oldstyle figs in the opentype fonts.
8 Nov 2010 — 12:33pm
I've seen them in specimens, but never in use.
In the documentary on Frutiger Next, Adrian Frutiger does a quick sketch of the oldstyle figures (in which he makes a mistake on "4"), which Akira Kobayashi implements (fixing the mistake).
So I don't think the designer's heart was in it (really, it's a feature made to accommodate Adobe layout apps and the OpenType format), and a bit of a travesty for this modern typeface.
8 Nov 2010 — 1:51pm
What's the mistake?
8 Nov 2010 — 1:54pm
I disagree.
Unless you are setting tables or columns of numbers, 'old style' figures look more 'natural' within blocks of text on a page.
But, that's my opinion :)
8 Nov 2010 — 9:40pm
What's the mistake?
IIRC, one of the characters which normally has a descender was standing on the baseline; the 4, I think.
9 Nov 2010 — 5:02am
3, 4 and 7?
9 Nov 2010 — 8:57am
This site gives the best online showing:
http://www.identifont.com/find?font=frutiger+next&q=Go
Correct though they may be, don't you find the oldstyle figures quaint in proportion and busy in comparison to the sublimely modern reduction of the alphabetic characters?
15 Nov 2010 — 1:59pm
A version of Frutiger Linotype with oldstyle figures was at one time (and may still be) included with Microsoft Reader, a free, downloadable application for reading eBooks on Windows-based devices.