OpenType features

Designed to correct awkward combinations of letters, such fi, ffi, fb, etc.

Generally features ct, st, Th, sp ligatures.

Swashes forms appeared during the sixteenth century, notably in typefaces from Garamond, Granjon, etc. At Typofonderie, we have Le Monde Livre Classic who feature an extensive set of swashes. Generally, swashes are ornamented italic capitals, today it extends to any letterforms with an ornamental effect. You can also find swashes in stylistic sets, as it help used to access to more detailed variations. Contextual features generally added to swashes feature for better visual integration on texts.

Contextual alternates help to give words a slightly more animated and informal appearance and to lend more visual interest to type composition. Contextual alternates generally built in connnection to swashes, titling alternates, stylistic sets, as it help used to access to more detailed variations.

Works a bit like swashes or contextual ligatures, but works precisely with begin or end of words. Initials and finals generally built in connnection to swashes, titling alternates, stylistic sets, as it help used to access to more detailed variations.

A bit similar to swashes, in a sense this feature propose variation of a glyph for display setting. Such pointed forms on Ysans. You can also find titling alternates in stylistic sets, as it help used to access to more detailed variations. Contextual features can be added to titling alternates feature for better visual integration on texts.

Stylistic sets were designed to offer various effects to words: any kind of alternates to give words a slightly more animated and informal appearance and to lend more visual interest to type composition. Ligatures can also added to such features depending of the situation. Their names in application are standard such as: stylistic set 1, stylistic 2, stylistic 3, but since some recent applications support custom names, in the future you will get more clear descriptions about the stylistic set. References to the Stylistic set are generally clearly explanded into the pdf specimen available on the typeface page.

Note: Stylistic Alternates was a pre-Stylistic sets feature that you can find in applications like Adobe Illustrator.

Propose long s to be used contextually depending the position in the words.

Common ornaments include fleurons, vignettes, borders, bullets, brackets, arrows, and any contemporary graphic decorations. In several cases, we added a copy of this feature into the Stylistic set for a better support of ornaments in softwares who don’t support yet the Ornaments feature.

To activate small caps from texts sets in lowercases. Design follow standard capitals but are in wider form in a size to match the lowercases.

Special punctuations and additional letters with a distinct design and spacing for use in all-capital text settings.

To activate small caps from texts sets in capitals. Design follow standard capitals but are in wider form in a size to match the lowercases.

These figures (generally standard figures in Pro versions) are designed in same alignment compatible with the uppercase characters of the typeface, they are preferred when setting certain texts, such as an all-capital headline and generally don’t fit well in lowercase text settings. Capitals figures can be designed in proportional and tabular versions.

These figures (also called OsF figures: Oldstyle figures) are designed with ascenders and descenders and have features and proportions compatible with the lowercase characters of the typeface. Oldstyle figures, also known as hanging figures, are typically used for text settings because they blend in well with the optical flow and rhythm of the lowercase alphabet. Oldstyle figures can be designed in proportional and tabular versions.

These figures are designed with ascenders and descenders and have features and proportions compatible with the lowercase characters of the typeface. Semi Oldstyle figures are a sort of intermediate version between Oldstyles figures and caps figures, in some cases, they are the standard version in OpenType fonts such in Costa, Ardoise, Mencken.

Tabular Figures are especially useful when setting columns of numbers, such as in financial reports. Tabular figures can be Caps, OldStyle or Semi Oldstyle in their design.

Tabular Figures are especially useful when setting columns of numbers, such as in financial reports. Tabular figures can be Caps, OldStyle or Semi Oldstyle in their design.

Fractions include an expanded set of the most commonly used diagonal fractions beyond 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4 and may include any additional fractions. Just key any figures, including zero and slash or fraction bar, then apply the feature.

Figures used to set fractions and in some cases: footnote references, chemical compounds, mathematical exponents.

Theses various kind of numerals are used for footnote references, chemical compounds, and as mathematical exponents. Used for abbreviations in English, French and Spanish, such as Madame, compagnie.

Used when creating ordinals, which specify position in a numbered series, and to set Spanish abbreviations such segundo.