LudwigType

Aspen

Aspen is a refreshing and resilient typeface for text of any kind. Functional but not faceless, Aspen derives a very distinctive character from an unusual pedigree. It is loosely influenced by early American and European grotesques, but with more warmth and improved legibility. And where these historical models were rigid and bulky, Aspen’s curves have a gentle sway that makes for very comfortable reading. Relatively generous ascenders and descenders allow the typeface to feel spacious even when set with tight leading. These amiable qualities are matched with a lively italic based on cursive writing. The family consists of nine weights, and is intended for both text and display usage.

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Single Font
€ 49.00
Entire Family (18 Fonts)
€ 399.00

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Case Sensitive Forms
When the ‘Change to caps’ function is applied from within an application (not when text is typed in caps), appropriate case-sensitive forms are automatically applied. Parenthesis, guillemets, dashes, hyphens and other punctuation marks are replaced with their capital forms.

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Small Caps
In Adobe applications there are two methods of applying small capitals. The first one replaces only lower case letters with small caps.

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All Small Caps
The second method also replaces capital letters and some punctuation marks with lowered small caps variations.

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Stylistic Alternates
All upright Aspen fonts contain an alternative single-story a and g, accessible via the OpenType feature Stylistic Set 01 and Stylistic Set 02 or Stylistic Alternates. Aspen Italic fonts contain only an alternate g, accessible via the OpenType feature Stylistic Set 01 or Stylistic Alternates.

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Contextual Alternates
This features replaces the regular ‘f’ with a narrower version to avoid collisions with following characters.

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Ligatures
Ligatures are designed to improve the kerning and readability of certain letter pairs. For example, when this feature is activated, typing ‘f’ and ‘i’ will automatically produce the ‘fi’ ligature. Using ligatures does not affect the spelling and hyphenation of your text in any way.

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Ordinals
This feature replaces default alphabetic glyphs with the corresponding ordinal forms.

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Lining Figures
Aspen fonts contain various styles of numerals within each font. Proportional Oldstyle Figures come standard. The Proportional Lining Figures feature changes standard figures to Lining Figures in capital letter height.

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Tabular Figures
Tabular figures are for use in tables where numerals need to be aligned vertically. Tabular figures are available as an OpenType feature and have a fixed width in all weights. This feature also replaces comma and period with corresponding glyphs set on uniform widths in all weights.

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Slashed zero
To avoid confusion between a zero and the ‘o’ character, a dotted zero glyph is also available.

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Arbitrary Fractions
All fonts already include a number of pre-designed diagonal fractions. The fraction feature allows you to create other fractions quickly and easily.

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Superscript / superiors
Replaces all figures with their superior alternates, which can be used for footnotes, formulas, etc.

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Subscript / inferiors
Replaces all figures with their inferior alternates, used primarily for mathematical or chemical notation.

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Discretionary Ligatures
The discretionary ligature feature creates real arrows when you type the combination -> (right arrow), <- (left arrow), -^ (up arrow) or ^- (down arrow), -^> (up right arrow), <^- (up left arrow), -^< (down right arrow) >^- (down left arrow). By typing multiple hyphen you can extend the horizontal arrows (for instance --> or <--). Discretionary ligatures are off by default in Adobe applications.