Font family: | Swift LT Std |
Font style: | |
Font version: | Version 1.01;PS 001.000;hotconv 1.0.38 |
Typeface type: | |
Characters: | 301 |
Number of glyphs: | 271 |
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Copyright notice: | Copyright (c) 2007-2018 Monotype GmbH. All rights reserved. |
Font family: | Swift LT Std Medium |
Font Subfamily name: | Regular |
Unique font identifier: | 1.000;MONO;SwiftLTStd-Medium |
Full font name: | SwiftLTStd-Medium |
Version string: | Version 1.01;PS 001.000;hotconv 1.0.38 |
Postscript name: | SwiftLTStd-Medium |
Trademark: | Swift is a trademark of Monotype GmbH and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. |
Manufacturer Name: | Monotype GmbH |
Designer: | Gerard Unger |
Description: | Gerard Unger developed Swift between 1984 and 1987, with the intention of making a modern digital type for newspapers. The project was undertaken for the German firm Dr.-Ing Rudolf Hell GmbH. At that time, newspapers were produced on high-speed presses with low quality paper. Unger says Swift is ""designed to be a survivor."" It has chunky triangular serifs, sturdy connections at junctures, condensed forms with open counters, and a tall x-height. The work of William A. Dwiggins (1880-1956) was Unger's major design influence for Swift. Dwiggins was a American type designer for Mergenthaler Linotype who, as early as 1930, was focusing on legibility in the design of alternative fonts for newspaper printing. Swift has become a contemporary classic, and is now used more often for corporate identities and magazines than for newspapers. Austere and concise, firm and original, Swift is a typeface suited to almost any purpose. In 1990, Linotype AG merged with Dr.-Ing Rudolf Hell GmbH, forming the Linotype-Hell AG (today Linotype GmbH). Since then, Linotype has been the official source of all fonts that were originally designed for the Hell Corporation. Linotype has also improved the typefaces using new technologies, including OpenType. Swift in OpenType format includes a full range of styles and weights from light to black condensed |
License Info URL: | http://www.monotype.com/ |
Typographic Family name: | Swift LT Std |
Typographic Subfamily name: | Medium |
Pixel unit: | 1000 |
Vertical minimum: | -244 |
Vertical maximum: | 884 |
Horizontal minimum: | -70 |
Horizontal maximum: | 1180 |
Mac Style: | 0 |
Minimum readable pixel size: | 3 |
Font direction: | 2 |
Ascending part: | 718 |
Descending part: | -282 |
Line spacing: | 200 |
Maximum step width: | 1210 |
Minimum left side beraring: | -70 |
Minimum right side beraring: | -168 |
Non component maximum points | 0 |
Non component maximum contours | 0 |
Word weight type: | 500 |
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: | 0 |
Typography ascending: | 718 |
Typography descending | -282 |
Typography spacing: | 200 |
Ascending part: | 928 |
Descending part: | 244 |
Bevel: | 0 |
Underline position: | -75 |
Underline thickness: | 50 |