Publisher: Aviation PartnersGimbal Grotesque is a richly-featured font style household offering many style alternatives throughout a broad variety of languages. It is twinned with Gimbal Egyptian, a slab-serif household with an identical series of weights and features.
Originally conceived as a little webfont household, the letterforms have been revitalised to put a spring in their step and the family has been encompassed produce a versatile multi-script text face similarly in the house on the printed page. Thoroughly crafted at all weights, Gimbal also lends itself to headlines and display applications such as posters, exhibits and signs while fixing well on-screen for basic file production and web-based applications.
The letters are spaced for finest readability on-screen and in the typical printed body text varieties but are tolerant of tracking adjustment to match other uses. The designs are divided by width into four households (Compressed, Condensed, Regular, Prolonged), each family possessing six weights plus corresponding italics. Within each household, the ‘‘ routine' and ‘ vibrant' weights are style-linked, and all upright kinds have an italic counterpart.
The full opentype character set includes latin, greek and cyrillic scripts with appropriate local variants (also as stylistic sets) for Turkish, Polish and Romanian (latin) and Russian, Bulgarian and Serbian (cyrillic). All fonts contain little capitals for all scripts, superscript for latin and commonly utilized greek together with the usual numeral style, size and placing alternatives. The default characters are ‘‘ proportional lining'. Other opentype functions consist of case-sensitive marks, fractions, and some discretionary ligatures. A set of circled numerals and circled around latin capitals is consisted of, along with an uncommon feature that composes 2-character nation codes.
