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PT Serif covers a wide range of type sizes.
Captions styles of PT Sans (Caption, Caption Bold) are designed for notes,
text boxes, and references. They are suited for web sites as well.
But these styles are applicable primarily for various road signs, plates, billboards
and other objects of communication design in the urban environment. They are
readable from a big distance in poor lighting conditions, fog, rain, etc.
Two narrow styles (Narrow, Narrow Bold) are designed for putting a large
amount of text in a limited amount of space on a printed sheet. Low compression
ratio (20%) allows for considerable savings without reducing readability. Texts
on packaging, annotations to medicines and special conditions of insurance
contracts (where narrow styles are traditionally used) are thus made readable.
PT Sans – PT Serif Characters
Each of the 14 styles of the PT Sans – PT Serif typeface system contains about
seven hundred characters. In addition to the standard set of characters to work
with the languages of Western and Eastern Europe, and the standard set of Cyrillic,
these fonts include all characters of alphabets of title languages of the Russian
Federation and are a unique and extremely important tool for the development
and preservation of written cultures of the peoples living in our country.
Free/libre fonts supporting national writing systems meet the needs of
education, culture, media, government agencies, businesses, and, moreover,
facilitate digital communications of the representatives of the Russian entities
in their native languages and the development of national resources in the
Internet. Having a common font for all national languages of the country is
important for international communication on the basis of a common standard,
both in terms of encoding, and in terms of similar design for cognate languages
and dialects. This will prevent the isolation of neighboring cultures because of
differences in the tradition of writing of same letters.
Experts of the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
were engaged to design the set of characters for PT Sans PT Serif and prepare
a special section with information on national writings for www.fonts.ru. The
development of PT Sans Pro and PT Serif Pro fonts allowed for support for 163
languages in seventy styles (32 and 38 Sans Serif).
Analysis of the Use of PT Sans and PT Serif
The PT Sans – PT Serif typeface system has quickly gained popularity with
designers all over the world.
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