Designer: Ian
LynamSmytheSoft Pro is a contemporary workhorse sans serif household that is eminently understandable on-screen and in print. It is an upgraded display variation of our popular household SmytheSans with custom-made rounded terminals, rigorously spaced and kerned. SmytheSoft Pro includes Western, Central and Eastern European and Vietnamese character sets and is offered in 5 Roman and Italic weights: thin, extremely light, light, routine and bold.
SmythSoft Pro includes a large x-height, ample yet financial spacing for capitals, and subtle ink traps for less-than-perfect printing conditions (which can be made use of as style features at large scale). All of the capitals from the old Smythe Sans Display household are folded in to SmytheSoft Pro as OpenType available stylistic alternates-- NASA-inspired space age alternate caps galore! The original Smythe Sans household included Italic and Oblique cuts-- in SmytheSoft Pro, the more calligraphic italic characters are readily available via OpenType-accessible stylistic sets. Each weight of SmytheSoft Pro includes a bespoke paragraph mark which varies from weight-to-weight and consists of over 100 accessories, kinetic rules, signs and pattern-making glyphs so that one might use SmytheSoft Pro as a complete design kit.
The lighter weights are a little slimmer than the routine and vibrant weights to give the typeface more of a vertical feel, welcoming readers' to rapidly read typeset text with a maximum of contrast and a minimum of optical dazzle. All work well on-screen as webfonts and in print as book type. Each is hinted with accuracy and kerned with precision.
SmytheSoft Pro is an eminently readable typeface, especially at little sizes on-screen. The strokes throughout are regulated to boost humanist expression, with high-contrast horizontal pieces gotten of certain letterforms to keep readers' eyes moving on in text. The typeface's propensity toward a high x-height was finished the single-storied font with more horizontal attributes for enhanced readability while being super-friendly and brilliant in appearance.
Features of SmytheSoft Pro:
-- total Western, Central and Eastern European characters sets enhanced for text typesetting
-- drastically enhanced spacing ensuring stunning results in print and on screen for the Czech, English, Hungarian, Croatian, Esperanto, Maltese, Romanian, Turkish, Albanian, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Basque, Bulgarian, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian and Vietnamese languages
-- all lowercase characters have a bigger x-height, creating less optical dazzle than typefaces like Futura, Neutra or Avant Garde
-- ink traps to enhance smooth printing when utilizing less-than-optimum production procedures like Risograph or if a press is overwhelmed with ink
-- retro-futuristic alternate characters for a lot of capitals
-- 100+ accessory, kinetic guidelines, forms, signs and pattern-making glyphs
