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CONTRALTO FONT FAMILY FEATURES
OPTICAL SIZES
Contralto is distributed in 4 optical sizes.
OPENTYPE
Opentype features let you activate lettershapes variants or display some magic combos. Access to these features depends on the software used.
LIGA: standard ligatures (should be always on) including:
• smart f variants to avoid collisions,
• T T ligature,
• anti-collision T (rightside),
• variants of f and t horizontal bar when next to each other (ff, tt, ft, tf, ttt, fff…)
DLIG: discretionary ligatures.
• (c) to ©,
• (p) to ℗,
• (r) to ®
CALT: contextual alternates: transforms the x letter to the multiply sign × when between two figures and/or an extra space
ZERO: activates slashed-zero alternate
SUPS: superscripts. Activates superscript figures
SUBS: subscripts. Activates subscript figures
NUMR: numerators. Activates numerator figures
DNOM: denominators. Activates denominator figures
FRAC: real fractions from any [number] slash [number] sequence
ORDN: ordinals. Creates ordinal versions for letters a b c d e h i l m n o r s t. If a or o are preceded by a figure and no letter follows, ordfeminine and ordmasculine are displayed.
SS01: stylistic set 01: Alternate a.
SS02: stylistic set 02: Alternate g.
SS03: stylistic set 03: Alternate j.
SS04: stylistic set 04: Alternate y.
SS05: stylistic set 05: Ż to Ƶ Polish variant.
SS06: stylistic set 06 “Arrows”. Transforms: -> to →, <- to ←, --> to ⟶, <-- to ⟵, <-> to ↔, <—> to ⟷, ^- to ↑, -^ to ↓, ^-^ to ↕, /> to ↗, to ↘, <\ to ↖, -- to ⎯ (double hyphen makes a long connector)
SALT: stylistic alternates. This feature is compiled as a fallback for Photoshop. Activates SS01, SS02, SS03, SS04 and SS05 at once.
LOCL: language-based localised forms (see “expert features” paragraph)
LNUM: Lining figures. Displays uppercase-aligned figures and case sensitive glyphs (see “expert features” below)
ONUM: Oldstyle figures. Displays default figures and glyphs.
TNUM: tabular figures. Switches figures and some related glyphs (see “expert features” paragraph) to tabular ones
PNUM: Proportional figures. Reverts to default non-tabular figures.
Tip: in most typesetting software, you’ll probably find the options “Tabular lining”, “Tabular oldstyle”, “Proportional lining” and “Proportional oldstyle”. These are just the combos of the last four features here upon.
EXPERT FEATURES
• Case-sensitive forms (matching uppercases) for these glyphs: ß 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; ¡ ¿ · • ◦ ‣ ◆ ■ □ ▣ ( ) { } [ ] - – — ⎯ « » ‹ › ¢ ¤ $ € ƒ ₺ ₱ ₹ £ ¥ + − × ÷ = ≠ > < ≥ ≤ ± ≈ ~ ¬ ∅ ∞ % ‰ ↑ ↗ → ↘ ↓ ↙ ← ↖ ↔ ↕ ⟵ ⟶ ⟷ @
• Tabular width glyphs or glyphs having their tabular alternate, letting you align them to tabular figures.
Tabular width glyphs are: π … # _ ⎯ ¢ $ € ƒ ₺ ₱ ₹ £ ¥ + − × ÷ = ≠ > < ≥ ≤ ± ≈ ~ ¬ ∅ ∞ ∫ √ µ ∂ % ↑ ↗ → ↘ ↓ ↙ ← ↖ ↔ ↕ ◊ ☐ ☑ ✓
Glyphs with tabular alternates:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
. , : ; · " ' ° | ¦ (these get tabular width only when NOT adjacent to any letter)
Most of them have case-sensitive alternates too.
In this font you’ll also find 3 long arrows ⟵ ⟶ ⟷ with their case sensitive alternate. Their length is exactly twice a tabular.
• Bullet point has some variants you can pick by hand. They’re all designed to match bullet’s size: • ◦ ‣ ◆ ■ □ ▣
• Extra glyphs: © ℗ ® ™ ℠ ℅ ℓ ℮ ‰ № ℃ ℉ ¶ § † ‡ ⁂ ⸫ ⸬ ⸪ ☐ ☑ ✓ (checkbox signs)
• 13 white spaces for advanced typesetting, including the tabular “figurespace”
• Automatic language-based localised forms:
1. Uppercase ß for German
2. Consistent idot versus dotlessi for uppercases in Turkish
3. Ż to Ƶ Polish graphic variant
4. Punt Volat in Catalan
5. Accented ij in Dutch
6. Romanian and Moldovan Comma Accent on t and s
7. Automatic (France only) French typesetting optimisation, switching space with “narrownbspace” (narrow non-breaking space) after * » : ; ! ? % ‰ and before « *
• You can play with “horizontallineextension” glyph and connect most of the glyphs in this font. “horizontallineextension” length is same as tabular figures and is case-sensitive too. In Adobe applications, write an hyphen and select it to access its longer variant “horizontallineextension”.
• Combining diacritics you can put one upon another. Read more here https://glyphsapp.com/tutorials/mark-attachment
LANGUAGES COVERAGE
Contralto supports 219 Latin based languages:
Abenaki, Afaan Oromo, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Amis, Anuta, Aragonese, Aranese, Aromanian, Arrernte, Arvanitic (Latin), Asturian, Atayal, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir (Latin), Basque, Belarusian (Latin), Bemba, Bikol, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Cape Verdean Creole, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chichewa, Chickasaw, Cimbrian, Cofán, Cornish, Corsican, Creek, Crimean Tatar (Latin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dawan, Delaware, Dholuo, Drehu, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Folkspraak, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz (Latin), Galician, Ganda, Genoese, German, Gikuyu, Gooniyandi, Greenlandic (Kalaallisut), Guadeloupean Creole, Gwich’in, Haitian Creole, Hän, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hopi, Hotcąk (Latin), Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Interglossa, Interlingua, Irish, Istro-Romanian, Italian, Jamaican, Javanese (Latin), Jèrriais, Kaingang, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kapampangan (Latin), Kaqchikel, Karakalpak (Latin), Karelian (Latin), Kashubian, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Klingon, Kurdish (Latin), Ladin, Latin, Latino sine Flexione, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Maasai, Makhuwa, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Māori, Marquesan, Megleno-Romanian, Meriam Mir, Mirandese, Mohawk, Moldovan, Montagnais, Montenegrin, Murrinh-Patha, Nagamese Creole, Nahuatl, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Ngiyambaa, Niuean, Noongar, Norwegian, Novial, Occidental, Occitan, Old Icelandic, Old Norse, Onĕipŏt, Oshiwambo, Ossetian (Latin), Palauan, Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Q’eqchi’, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romanian, Romansh, Rotokas, Sami (Inari Sami), Sami (Lule Sami), Sami (Northern Sami), Sami (Southern Sami), Samoan, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Latin), Seri, Seychellois Creole, Shawnee, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Slovio (Latin), Somali, Sorbian (Lower Sorbian), Sorbian (Upper Sorbian), Sotho (Northern), Sotho (Southern), Spanish, Sranan, Sundanese (Latin), Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen (Latin), Tuvaluan, Tzotzil, Uzbek (Latin), Venetian, Vepsian, Volapük, Võro, Wallisian, Walloon, Waray-Waray, Warlpiri, Wayuu, Welsh, Wik-Mungkan, Wiradjuri, Wolof, Xavante, Xhosa, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Zapotec, Zarma, Zazaki, Zulu, Zuni. |