Font family: | Pirouette LT Std |
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Font version: | Version 2.100;PS 002.001;hotconv 1.0.38 |
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Characters: | 275 |
Number of glyphs: | 237 |
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Copyright notice: | Copyright © 2004 - 2008 Linotype GmbH, www.linotype.com. All rights reserved. This font software may not be reproduced, modified, disclosed or transferred without the express written approval of Linotype GmbH. Pirouette is a trademark of Linotype GmbH and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. This typeface is original artwork of Ryuichi Tateno. The design may be protected in certain jurisdictions. |
Font family: | Pirouette LT Std Text |
Font Subfamily name: | Regular |
Unique font identifier: | 2.100;LINO;PirouetteLTStd-Text |
Full font name: | PirouetteLTStd-Text |
Version string: | Version 2.100;PS 002.001;hotconv 1.0.38 |
Postscript name: | PirouetteLTStd-Text |
Trademark: | Pirouette is a trademark of Linotype GmbH and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. |
Manufacturer Name: | Linotype GmbH |
Designer: | Ryuichi Tateno |
Description: | Pirouette is based on a logo that Japanese designer Ryuichi Tateno created for a packaging design project in 1999 (a shampoo container!). Tateno's logo experimented with complex, overlapped swash letterforms. He continued to develop these outside of the initial packaging project, until they took on a life of their own. Eventually, Tateno designed a full typeface out of the logo, Pirouette, which was the first place display face in Linotype's 2003 International Type Design Contest. The Pirouette typeface contains six different fonts. The basic font is Pirouette Regular. This is an engraver's italic lowercase paired with elaborate swash capitals. The swash capitals have two visual elements in their forms: thick strokes and thin strokes. Pirouette Text includes the same lowercase as Pirouette Regular, but the uppercase letters are much shorter and simpler. This "text" font can be used to set longer amounts of copy. Pirouette Alternate contains different lowercase glyphs and additional ligatures, which can be used as substitutes for the lowercase forms in the Pirouette Regular and Pirouette Text fonts. Pirouette Ornaments contains swashes and other knick-knacks that can either be added onto the end of a letter, or used as separate decorative elements or swooshes (accolades) on a page.Pirouette Separate 1 and Pirouette Separate 2 are two fonts that can be layered over top of one another in software applications that support layering (e.g., most Adobe and Macromedia applications, as well as QuarkXPress). Pirouette Separate 1 contains the thick stroke elements from Pirouette Regular's uppercase letters, as well as the same lowercase glyphs that can be found in Pirouette Regular and Pirouette Text. Pirouette Separate 2 contains only the thin stroke elements from Pirouette Regular's uppercase letters. By layering Pirouette Separate 1 and Pirouette Separate 2 over one another, you can give the uppercase letter's thick and thin stroke elements different colors and create unique, more calligraphic designs.The Pirouette family, Tanteno's first commercial typeface, was greatly influenced by the calligraphic and typographic work of the master German designer, Prof. Hermann Zapf, especially his Zapfino typeface. |
License Info URL: | http://www.linotype.com/license |
Typographic Family name: | Pirouette LT Std |
Typographic Subfamily name: | Text |
Pixel unit: | 1000 |
Vertical minimum: | -390 |
Vertical maximum: | 917 |
Horizontal minimum: | -458 |
Horizontal maximum: | 803 |
Mac Style: | 0 |
Minimum readable pixel size: | 3 |
Font direction: | 2 |
Ascending part: | 780 |
Descending part: | -390 |
Line spacing: | 0 |
Maximum step width: | 823 |
Minimum left side beraring: | -458 |
Minimum right side beraring: | -381 |
Non component maximum points | 0 |
Non component maximum contours | 0 |
Word weight type: | 400 |
Word width type: | 5 |
Size of superscript horizontal font : | 650 |
Size of superscript vertical font | 600 |
Superscript horizontal deviation | 0 |
Superscript vertical deviation | 75 |
Size of subscript level font: | 700 |
Size of subscript vertical | 650 |
Subscript horizontal offset: | 0 |
Subscript vertical offset: | 477 |
Delete line size: | 50 |
Delete line position: | 250 |
Font selection identifier: | 64 |
Typography ascending: | 780 |
Typography descending | -390 |
Typography spacing: | 0 |
Ascending part: | 780 |
Descending part: | 390 |
Bevel: | 0 |
Underline position: | -75 |
Underline thickness: | 50 |