PT Fonts
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Category | Font superfamily |
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Classification | Humanist sans-serif Transitional serif Monospaced font |
Designer(s) | Alexandra Korolkova with Olga Umpelova and Vladimir Yefimov |
Commissioned by | Rospechat |
Foundry | ParaType |
Date created | 2009 |
Date released | 13 January 2010[1] |
License | SIL Open Font License or ParaType Free Font License |
The Public Type or PT Fonts are a family of free and open-source fonts released from 2009 onwards, comprising PT Sans, PT Serif and PT Mono. They were commissioned from the design agency ParaType by Rospechat, a department of the Russian Ministry of Communications, to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Peter the Great's orthography reform and to create a font family that supported all the different variations of Cyrillic script used by the minority languages of Russia, as well as the Latin alphabet.[1][2]
Primarily designed by Alexandra Korolkova, the family includes sans-serif and serif designs, both with caption styles for small-print text, and a monospaced font for use in programming. They are available under the English-language SIL Open Font License; the original font, PT Sans, was also released under ParaType's own Free Font License, and regular and bold with italics is free in Google.[3] Additional styles, such as extended, condensed and extra-bold, are sold from ParaType as PT Sans Pro and PT Serif Pro.[4][5]
Features
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Russian_rouble_sign_%28PT_Sans_2.003%29.svg/100px-Russian_rouble_sign_%28PT_Sans_2.003%29.svg.png)
The fonts include Latin and Cyrillic characters and covers almost all minority languages of the Russian Federation. The slashed-Р ruble symbol (before it became official in December 2013) is included at the U+20B9…U+20CF code points.
In the most common open-source release, PT Sans and PT Serif feature regular, italic, bold and bold italic designs. They also include a caption style: this is a wider version of the typeface with a greater x-height (taller lower-case letters), designed for legibility at small font sizes and on outdoor signs. PT Sans also includes a condensed version in regular and bold without italics. In caption styles, PT Serif has a caption italic style while PT Sans has a bold version. PT Mono includes regular and bold styles.
Commercial releases include for PT Sans additional light, demi-bold, extra bold and black weights, in regular, narrow, condensed and extra-condensed styles. PT Serif gains an additional 32 styles, with narrow and extended widths, black, extra-bold and demi-bold weights. The professional releases also add text figures and small caps.
Inclusion in operating systems
PT Sans is included in the Fedora Linux package repository since February 2010,[7] in the Gentoo Linux repository since January 2011,[8] and in macOS since OS X Lion.[9]
PT Astra fonts
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/PT_Serif_vs_PT_Astra_Serif.png/220px-PT_Serif_vs_PT_Astra_Serif.png)
In 2016, PT Astra Sans and PT Astra Serif fonts were developed for distribution with the Russian Astra Linux operating system. Both fonts are metrically compatible with Times New Roman.[10][11][12] In 2021, PT Astra Fact font was developed for distribution with the Astra Linux operating system. It is metrically compatible with Verdana.[13]
Gallery
- PT Sans features
- PT Serif features
- PT Serif features
- PT Serif cyrillic (top) and latin (bottom) letters difference
- The open-source weights of the PT font series.
See also
- Open-source Unicode typefaces
- Droid (typeface), the default fonts for first versions of Android
- Noto fonts, the default fonts for newer versions of Android
- Open Sans, another font based on Droid Sans
- Roboto, the default fonts for newer versions of Android
- IBM Plex, free and open-source fonts from IBM
- National Fonts, free and open-source Thai fonts
References
- ^ a b Создан шрифт, поддерживающий все языки народов России (in Russian). Vesti. 2010-01-13. Retrieved 2010-08-04.
- ^ Разработан новый шрифт с поддержкой всех языков Российской Федерации (in Russian). Rossiyskaya Gazeta. 2010-01-14. Retrieved 2010-08-04.
- ^ "New version of PT Sans". 2010-04-02. Archived from the original on 2010-08-19. Retrieved 2010-08-04.
- ^ "PT Sans Pro". MyFonts. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
- ^ "PT Serif Pro". MyFonts. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
- ^ "Ruble symbol". 2013-12-11. Retrieved 2013-12-11.
- ^ "Bug 556308 - Review Request: paratype-pt-sans-fonts - A pan-Cyrillic typeface". Retrieved 2010-08-04.
- ^ "Gentoo Bug 314503 - media-fonts/pt-sans (new package)". Retrieved 2011-01-19.
- ^ "OS X Lion default fonts".
- ^ "ПараТайп Новости - Информация о новых гарнитурах и о различных шрифтовых событиях". www.paratype.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2018-10-04. Retrieved 2020-04-25.
- ^ "PT Astra Sans". www.paratype.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-04-25.
- ^ "PT Astra Serif". www.paratype.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-04-25.
- ^ "Россияне создали замену знаменитому американскому шрифту, который недавно вычистили из ГОСТов". www.cnews.ru (in Russian). 2021-06-07. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
External links
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- Official website
- The post in the official ParaType blog announcing PT Sans and telling the story of the project (in Russian)
- Alexandra Korolkova interview
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