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Gordon

Gordon may be described as a slab serif. Indeed, very early prints, which were printed on slightly moist hand-made paper, have similarly low stroke contrasts and rounded corners, inside and outside, including the serifs. That’s what makes this typeface so communicative and mannerly. Gordon’s aesthetic appeal arises from the lively movement of the letters’ lines. This is never arbitrary. It either supports the harmonious letter spacing or the open images of the individual characters. The accompanying italics are highly idiosyncratic, original creations, almost with a handwritten style. Gordon also forms nice compact lines with the somewhat broader small capitals. It seems that users need a feeling for the typeface to really appreciate its qualities.

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€ 59.00
Entire Family (8 Fonts)
€ 399.00

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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.

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

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Lining Figures
Essenz Expert 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.

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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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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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Language Support
Correct typographical glyphs e.g. in Romanian (commaaccent replaces cedilla) and Turkish (dotaccent on the small caps lower case i).