Brenta
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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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All Small Caps
This feature turns capital characters into Small Capitals. It also replaces numerals and punctuation with small caps variants. Only the Brenta Small Caps fonts contain this feature.
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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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Contextual Alternates
This feature replaces certain characters with their corresponding alternatives to avoid collisions with neighbouring characters. There is a narrower ‘f’ for problematic following characters. A narrower ‘j’ for preceding descenders. The italics also include an alternative ‘f’ without a descender. Special cases are where the character pairs f with b, h, k or l. Here the ‘f’ is replaced with its narrower form and the characters with ascenders are replaced with an alternative form without a top serif. Note: If the ligature feature is on, the ligature has priority.
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»Stencil« Alternates
All Brenta fonts contain alternative characters with disconnected drops. These special characters are accessible via the OpenType feature Stylistic Set 01 or Stylistic Alternates. The following alternative characters are available: C, G, J, Q (only italics), S, a, c, f, g, j, r, s, y, ß, 3, 5, ?.
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Ordinals
This feature replaces default alphabetic glyphs with the corresponding ordinal forms.
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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.
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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.