Contemporary Sans
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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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Stylistic Alternates
All Contemporary Sans Italic fonts contain an alternative single-story a and g, accessible via the OpenType feature Stylistic Set 01 or Stylistic Alternates.
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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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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.