The variable Sans Serif typeface Linear Beta is designed from 2022–2024 for the font foundry Typo Graphic Design by Manuel Viergutz based on a font by Jens Kreitmeyer for an alphabetization app.
9 font-styles (Black, UltraBold, Bold, SemiBold, Medium, Regular, Light, ExtraLight, Thin ) with 500+ glyphs (Adobe Latin 2) incl. 100+ decorative extras like icons, arrows, catch words, dingbats, emojis, symbols, geometric shapes (type the word #LOVE for ❤ or #SMILE for ☺ as OpenType-Feature dlig) and stylistic alternates (4 stylistic sets).
Characteristics of the font are good legibility in the form of a large x-Height (easier to read at small sizes), an open Apertures of the lowercase letter “a” or “e” and a large Counter (direct effect on a optimise legibility).
For use in logos, magazines, posters, advertisement plus as webfont for decorative headlines. The font works best for display size.
Font Specifications
■ Font Name: Linear Beta
■ Font Styles: 9 font-styles (Black, UltraBold, Bold, SemiBold, Medium, Regular, Light, ExtraLight, Thin) + DEMO (with reduced glyph-set)
■ Font Category: Variable Sans Serif for headline size
■ Font Format: .otf (Mac + Win, for Print) + .woff (for Web)
■ Glyph Set: 500+ glyphs (incl. decorative extras) Adobe Latin 2
■ Language Support (Diacritical characters for 72 languages): Afrikaans Albanian Asu Basque Bemba Bena Breton Catalan Chiga Colognian Cornish Danish Dutch English Estonian Faroese Filipino Finnish French Friulian Galician German Gusii Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Irish Italian Kabuverdianu Kalenjin Kinyarwanda Lower Sorbian Luo Luxembourgish Luyia Machame Makhuwa-Meetto Makonde Malagasy Manx Morisyen North Ndebele Norwegian Bokmål Norwegian Nynorsk Nyankole Oromo Portuguese Quechua Romansh Rombo Rundi Rwa Samburu Sango Sangu Scottish Gaelic Sena Shambala Shona Soga Somali Spanish Swahili Swedish Swiss German Taita Teso Upper Sorbian Uzbek (Latin) Volapük Vunjo Zulu
■ OpenType features (24): aalt case ccmp dlig dnom frac fwid hwid liga lnum numr onum ordn sinf ss01 ss02 ss03 ss04 subs sups zero kern mark mkmk
■ Design Date: 2022–2024
■ Type Designer: Manuel Viergutz
■ Kerning: Yes – included a high quality Kerning (The adjustment of spacing between specific glyphs)
■ Specials: The typeface included a lot of Extras like
a Set of Dingbats (decorative elements like symbols or geometic shapes),
flowers & pattern ❖ (Black Diamond)
✿ (Black Florette) ◉ (fisheye) ⦿ (bullet circled),
icons & pictogram (Bildzeichen) ⚀ ⚅,
Emoji like Smileys ☺ ☻, Eyes ????,
Symbols like Pilcrow / paragraph symbol ¶,
floral heart ❦ (Aldusblatt),
a collection of hearts ♥︎ ♡ ❥,
a set of Arrows → ➡︎,
Geometric Shapes like Circle ⚫️ , Square ◼︎, Triangle ▲, Rectangle ▬,
Catch Words (AND),
a Set of Dashes (- hyphen, – en dash, — em dash),
different Figures / Fractions like 0, ½, ¾,
Ligature (two or more letters together design a new glyph like Æ, æ, fi, fl, Œ, œ, &, ß …)
