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Aanaar
This typeface comes from a self initiated project which aims to contribute to keep a group of minority languages alive through solving issues in the education environment, called Sápmi.
This re-thought edition takes the name of Aanaar and joins our library with a bigger character set and two new weights which complete the typeface providing a big typographic palette as well as adding stylistic two-story a and g for more advanced readers as well as to enable the type-face to be used in other environments.
The typeface was originally designed for children's text books. Analysing kid's typeface design, we identified some important problems and solved them within the boundaries we had. The main concern in a typeface which will be used by chil- dren is letter recognition, as they have not yet fully develop their reading skills. For example, letters like “a” and “g” share a very similar struc- ture in this particular kind of typefaces, where the only distinctive part is the descender of the “g”.
Analysing kid's typeface design, we identified some important problems and solved them
It is known that the lower part of the letter is the less important feature when reading, therefore we decided to make a clear distinction between them by having an “a” with a spur on the top right. This also helped distinguishing “a” and “o”. Children typefaces usually have one story “a”, making “a” usually too close to “o”. Additionally we moved the joint in “a” upwards and narrowed very slightly the “a” to make sure they cannot be mistaken.
More generally, the x-height is fairly tall and the typeface has a bit of movement which give it a good rhythm helping moving along nicely when reading. Aanaar consists of 5 weights (Light, Regular, Medium, Bold and Black) plus two Italics (Light Italic and Italic).
Language and features support
- Latin
- Standard ligatures
- Discretionary ligatures
- Localised forms
- Small Caps
- Small caps from caps
- Cap spacing
- Case sensitive forms
- Ordinals
- Superiors
- Inferiors
- Numerators
- Denominators
- Fractions
- Lining figures
- Old style figures
- Tabular figures
- Old style tabular figures
- Two-story glyphs
- Arrows
- Educational symbols
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Latin Latin -
Standard ligatures Standard ligatures -
Discretionary ligatures Discretionary ligatures -
Localised forms Localised forms -
Small Caps Small Caps -
Small caps from caps Small caps from caps -
Cap spacing Cap spacing -
Case sensitive forms Case sensitive forms -
Ordinals Ordinals -
Superiors Superiors -
Inferiors Inferiors -
Numerators Numerators -
Denominators Denominators -
Fractions Fractions -
Lining figures Lining figures -
Old style figures Old style figures -
Tabular figures Tabular figures -
Old style tabular figures Old style tabular figures -
Two-story glyphs Two-story glyphs -
Arrows Arrows -
Educational symbols Educational symbols