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Standard CT

Similar to Helvetica and Akizidenz-Grotesk, Standard CT is an alternative that is considerably warmer and a bit more idiosyncratic. Available in 4 widths of 9 weights each.

CastleType was commissioned in 1991 by San Francisco Focus magazine to digitize three members of the Standard family.
This is a Continental lineale that was popular in Switzerland in the 1950s and later in the United States.
A cousin to the ubiquitous Helvetica and very similar to Akzidenz-Grotesk, Standard is an alternative that is considerably warmer and a bit more idiosyncratic.
In 2008, CastleType released additional members of the Standard CT family to make it a complete typographic solution with three widths (normal, condensed, extended) of four weights each (Regular, Medium, Bold, and Extra Bold).
Some of the original Standard fonts, particularly Standard Regular, appear to have been hastily designed (or perhaps too closely imitated Helvetica); these have been greatly improved in the CastleType versions with more harmonious proportions and other refinements.
The three lighter weights of the Extended subfamily were designed from scratch based on the new Standard CT Regular and Standard CT Extended Extra Bold.
More recently, four light weights (Light, Extra Light, Ultra Light, and Hairline) have been added to each of the three widths.
The entire Standard CT family includes support for most European languages, OpenType features, arbitrary fractions, and a collection of geometrics, dingbats & fleurons.
Standard CT includes 9 OpenType features including Standard Ligatures.
Standard CT is a sans serif and stencil font family.
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CastleType was commissioned in 1991 by San Francisco Focus magazine to digitize three members of the Standard family, a Continental lineale that was popular in Switzerland in the 1950s and later in the United States. A cousin to the ubiquitous Helvetica and very similar to Akzidenz-Grotesk, Standard is an alternative that is considerably warmer and a bit more idiosyncratic.

Some of the original Standard fonts, particularly Standard Regular, appear to have been hastily designed; these have been greatly improved in the CastleType versions with more harmonious proportions and other refinements. CastleType has expanded the Standard CT family to make it a complete typographic solution with four widths (normal, condensed, semi-extended and extended) of nine weights each (Hairline through Extra Bold).

The entire Standard CT family supports most European languages including those that use the Cyrillic alphabet, OpenType features, arbitrary fractions, and a collection of geometrics, dingbats & fleurons.

Foundry CastleType
Fonts 38
Price $59.00
Released 2013
Styles Display, Sans Serif, Stencil

Standard CT

38 Fonts

$649.00

Standard CT - Normal Width

9 Fonts

$249.00

Standard CT - Condensed

9 Fonts

$249.00

Standard CT - Extended

9 Fonts

$249.00

Standard CT - Semi Extended

9 Fonts

$249.00

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