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Urge Text Font

Designer: Dave Rowland
Publisher: Schizotype

Urge Text was developed by Dave Rowland and published by Schizotype. Advise Text consists of 24 designs and family package options. p > It began with an italic, or to be more accurate, half an italic. The slanted styles of Urge Text exhibit a particular bipolarity, the tops of glyphs having a standard italic kind, the bottoms of glyphs being more Roman in their construction. This sturdy footing really locks the italics to the standard, making them really readable while still standing out from the uprights. The exact same bipolar method didn't work extremely well in upright styles, so the Romans are more toned down.

Ranging from the almost monoline, Egyptian style lightweight to higher contrast 'Modern' bolds, there is much potential for use in typographically demanding scenarios.

The household includes 6 weights, regular and condensed widths, all with italics, making an overall of 24 typefaces; it's an extremely usable text typeface with a variety of OpenType features.

All designs include small caps, several figure styles (proportional- and tabular-, oldstyle and lining, little cap proportional figures, numerators, denominators, superscript and subscript), basic ligatures, alternate types (stylistic sets), automated portions, case delicate forms, and a handy (maybe!) 'percent off' ligature in the discretionary ligatures feature.