Including a wide Latin language support and character sets, URW Geometric® is perfectly designed for today’s requirements. Additionally, various extra and alternate glyphs are designed to provide a friendly usability. The numero sign, in modern use called “hashtag”, is space saving and optically balanced for body text. For example: the email glyph looks modern and unique, including a perfectly balanced spacing. Apart from the basic characters the design has an extra focus on the special glyphs. URW Geometric® is functional, strong, simple and harmonized in form, and at a glance appears as a modern variant of its predecessors. The optically balanced styles are designed to work in perfect harmony together. The extreme light styles shine bright in large sizes, the middle weights are perfect for body copy and the bolder variants for the use of emphasis information or bring a strong impact to headlines and information. With its 10 weights ranging from Thin to Black, plus 10 additional oblique styles, it has a great versatility in mind.
These design characteristics increase the usability and legibility tremendously. Special glyphs, which are often designed afterwards for the original geometric typefaces from the 1920s, are perfectly integrated in the URW Geometric®. The character shapes have optimized proportions and an improved balance, the x-height is increased, ascenders and descenders are decreased. URW Geometric® is a sans serif typeface inspired by the German geometric typefaces of the 1920s but designed for modern usability.
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