JAF Lapture was developed by Albert Kapr, Tim Ahrens and released by Just Another Foundry. JAF Lapture includes 24 styles and household package choices. p > Lapture is based upon the Leipziger Antiqua by Albert Kapr, released in 1971 by the East German foundry Typoart. It has actually been extended and carefully revamped by Tim Ahrens in 2002-05.

The strong calligraphic attributes are a result of the design process: 'The size of the counters and the width of individual characters at small optical sizes were analysed with a steel pen while the letter shapes were designed in bigger size with a specially cut reed pen. Often the hand is more innovative than the head alone,' says Kapr.

A special feature of this font style is the intro of gothic shapes into a latin typeface. 'The fundamental idea is to string together narrow white hexagons as counters and inter-letter areas, specified by vertical stems and triangular serifs. The interior spaces are at least as essential as the strokes that comprise the characters.'

Lapture is a perfect option if a recommendation to gothic style is desired, as true black letter types are frequently too captivating and not as legible as latin fonts for unknown readers.

' The last couple of years have seen a number of extremely stylish typefaces based on the mellow and feminine renaissance design. Nevertheless, sometimes we require a font style that is strong and robust, harmonic yet rigid,' says designer Tim Ahrens.

JAF Lapture is supplied in OpenType format. Each typeface includes more than 600 glyphs, including true little caps, 9 sorts of figures, contextual and stylistic alternates and accented characters. This means that you just need to buy one font whereas in other families you would need to purchase 2 or three font styles in order to get the very same. Technically, they follow the Adobe Pro typefaces and offer the same glyph set and OpenType functionality.

JAF Lapture Basic is provided in OpenType format. Each typeface consists of the standard sets of both MacOS and Windows. In contrast to JAF Lapture they do not provide any innovative OpenType features and no prolonged glyph set.

Font Family:
· Lapture Regular
· Lapture Italic
· Lapture SemiBold
· Lapture SemiBold Italic
· Lapture Bold
· Lapture Bold Italic
· Lapture Caption Regular
· Lapture Caption Italic
· Lapture Caption SemiBold
· Lapture Caption SemiBold Italic
· Lapture Caption Bold
· Lapture Caption Bold Italic
· Lapture Display Regular
· Lapture Display Italic
· Lapture Display SemiBold
· Lapture Display SemiBold Italic
· Lapture Display Bold
· Lapture Display Bold Italic
· Lapture Subhead Regular
· Lapture Subhead Italic
· Lapture Subhead SemiBold
· Lapture Subhead SemiBold Italic
· Lapture Subhead Bold
· Lapture Subhead Bold Italic

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