Gimbal Egyptian is a richly-featured typeface family providing numerous style alternatives across a broad range of languages. It is twinned with Gimbal Grotesque, a sans-serif family with an identical variety of weights and features.
Originally conceived as a little webfont family, the letterforms have been revitalised to put a spring in their action and the household has actually been extended to develop a flexible multi-script text face similarly in the house on the printed page. Thoroughly crafted at all weights, Gimbal likewise provides itself to headlines and display applications such as posters, exhibits and signs while fixing well on-screen for basic document production and web-based applications.
The letters are spaced for finest readability on-screen and in the usual printed body text varieties however are tolerant of tracking adjustment to suit other usages. The designs are divided by width into four families (Compressed, Condensed, Typical, Prolonged), each family possessing 6 weights plus matching italics. Within each family, the ‘‘ routine' and ‘ bold' weights are style-linked, and all upright forms have an italic counterpart.
The full opentype character set consists of latin, greek and cyrillic scripts with proper regional variants (likewise as stylistic sets) for Turkish, Polish and Romanian (latin) and Russian, Bulgarian and Serbian (cyrillic). All typefaces include small capitals for all scripts, superscript for latin and commonly used greek together with the normal numeral style, size and placing choices. The default numerals are ‘‘ proportional lining'. Other opentype features consist of case-sensitive marks, fractions, and some discretionary ligatures. A set of circled characters and circled latin capitals is included, in addition to an uncommon feature that composes 2-character country codes.