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Public Type fonts
CategoryFont superfamily
ClassificationHumanist sans-serif
Transitional serif
Monospaced font
Designer(s)Alexandra Korolkovawith Olga Umpelova and Vladimir Yefimov
Commissioned byRospechat
FoundryParaType
Date created2009
Date released13 January 2010[1]
LicenseSIL Open Font LicenseorParaType Free Font License

The Public Type orPT Fontsare a family offree and open-sourcefontsreleased from 2009 onwards, comprisingPT Sans,PT SerifandPT Mono.They were commissioned from the design agency ParaType byRospechat,a department of the RussianMinistry of Communications,to celebrate the 300th anniversary ofPeter the Great'sorthography reformand to create a font family that supported all thedifferent variationsofCyrillic scriptused by the minoritylanguages of Russia,as well as theLatin Alpha bet.[1][2]

Primarily designed byAlexandra Korolkova,the family includessans-serifandserifdesigns, both withcaption stylesfor small-print text, and amonospaced fontfor use in programming. They are available under the English-languageSIL Open Font License;the original font, PT Sans, was also released under ParaType's own Free Font License, and regular and bold with italics is free in Google.[3]Additional styles, such as extended, condensed and extra-bold, are sold from ParaType as PT Sans Pro and PT Serif Pro.[4][5]

Features

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The official[6]ruble symbolin PT Sans

The fonts includeLatinandCyrilliccharacters and covers almost all minority languages of the Russian Federation. The slashed-Рruble symbol(before it became official in December 2013) is included at the U+20B9…U+20CF code points.

In the most common open-source release, PT Sans and PT Serif feature regular, italic, bold and bold italic designs. They also include acaption style:this is a wider version of the typeface with a greaterx-height(taller lower-case letters), designed for legibility at small font sizes and on outdoor signs. PT Sans also includes a condensed version in regular and bold without italics. In caption styles, PT Serif has a caption italic style while PT Sans has a bold version. PT Mono includes regular and bold styles.

Commercial releases include for PT Sans additional light, demi-bold, extra bold and black weights, in regular, narrow, condensed and extra-condensed styles. PT Serif gains an additional 32 styles, with narrow and extended widths, black, extra-bold and demi-bold weights. The professional releases also addtext figuresandsmall caps.

Inclusion in operating systems

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PT Sans is included in theFedora Linuxpackage repository since February 2010,[7]in theGentoo Linuxrepository since January 2011,[8]and inmacOSsinceOS X Lion.[9]

PT Astra fonts

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PT Astra Serif is visually similar to PT Serif, but metrically equivalent to Times New Roman. All fonts shown are set to the same size.

In 2016, PT Astra Sans and PT Astra Serif fonts were developed for distribution with the RussianAstra Linuxoperating system. Both fonts are metrically compatible withTimes New Roman.[10][11][12]In 2021, PT Astra Fact font was developed for distribution with the Astra Linux operating system. It is metrically compatible withVerdana.[13]

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  • PT Sans features
    PT Sans features
  • PT Serif features
    PT Serif features
  • PT Serif features
    PT Serif features
  • PT Serif cyrillic (top) and latin (bottom) letters difference
    PT Serif cyrillic (top) and latin (bottom) letters difference
  • The open-source weights of the PT font series.
    The open-source weights of the PT font series.

See also

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References

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  1. ^abСоздан шрифт, поддерживающий все языки народов России(in Russian).Vesti.2010-01-13.Retrieved2010-08-04.
  2. ^Разработан новый шрифт с поддержкой всех языков Российской Федерации(in Russian).Rossiyskaya Gazeta.2010-01-14.Retrieved2010-08-04.
  3. ^"New version of PT Sans".2010-04-02. Archived fromthe originalon 2010-08-19.Retrieved2010-08-04.
  4. ^"PT Sans Pro".MyFonts.Retrieved21 September2014.
  5. ^"PT Serif Pro".MyFonts.Retrieved21 September2014.
  6. ^"Ruble symbol".2013-12-11.Retrieved2013-12-11.
  7. ^"Bug 556308 - Review Request: paratype-pt-sans-fonts - A pan-Cyrillic typeface".Retrieved2010-08-04.
  8. ^"Gentoo Bug 314503 - media-fonts/pt-sans (new package)".Retrieved2011-01-19.
  9. ^"OS X Lion default fonts".
  10. ^"ПараТайп Новости - Информация о новых гарнитурах и о различных шрифтовых событиях".paratype.ru(in Russian). Archived fromthe originalon 2018-10-04.Retrieved2020-04-25.
  11. ^"PT Astra Sans".paratype.ru(in Russian).Retrieved2020-04-25.
  12. ^"PT Astra Serif".paratype.ru(in Russian).Retrieved2020-04-25.
  13. ^"Россияне создали замену знаменитому американскому шрифту, который недавно вычистили из ГОСТов".cnews.ru(in Russian). 2021-06-07.Retrieved2021-10-25.
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