First versions of Nimbus Sans have actually been created and digitized in the 1980s for the URW SIGNUS sign-making system. Greatest accuracy of all characters (1/100 mm accuracy) in addition to spacing and kerning were needed since the fonts need to be cut in any size in vinyl or other material used for sign-making. Throughout this duration three size ranges were created for text (T), the display screen (D) and poster (P) for little, medium and really large font sizes. In addition, we produced a so-called L-version that worked to Adobe's PostScript version of Helvetica. Nimbus was likewise the item name of a URW-proprietary renderer for high quality and fast rasterization of overview font styles, a software offered to the designers of PostScript clone RIPs (Hyphen, Harlequin, etc.) at that time. Likewise in the 80s, a new, improved version of the Nimbus Sans, specifically Nimbus Sans Novus was designed. Nimbus Sans Novus was conceptually developed entirely with URW's IKARUS system, i.e. all styles harmonize perfectly with each other in terms of line width, weight, percentages, etc. On top of that, Nimbus Sans Novus includes more styles than Nimbus Sans.
Now, Nimbus Sans Novus is also readily available as Round (like the popular URW font styles Futura Round and Eurostile Round). The Round variations are meant to assist in the work of designers and typographers. The font styles can be used directly, without further preparatory operate in graphic programs as ended up, high-quality Rounds.
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