About this font
Apex New supersedes Apex Sans, which was originally released in early 2003. Once the design was released, Chester started work on Apex Serif, Thirstype’s first OpenType font family; he returned to Apex Sans in early 2004, with a view to extending the glyphset and combining the Small Caps and numeral sets into OpenType fonts. As he worked, he started seeing the type’s flaws, and set about fixing them. Two years later, Apex New was finished. All weights of the type have been revised, and everything heavier than Book has been completely redrawn. The bold weights which had previously “closed up”, especially at smaller sizes, are now more open with subtle contrast; the new version has been described as “elegant”. The family has grown to seven weights, with over a thousand glyphs in each font. The font files are cross-platform CFF-flavoured OpenType, with loads of basic and advanced features.
Grateful thanks and acknowledgment for guidance and assistance are due to: Tracy Jenkins, Christian Schwartz, Karsten Luecke, Adam Twardoch, Jacob Øvergaard, Martin Turzík, Oscar Bjarnason, and Adam Pituła.
Version history
V1.0 – Initial release version; 2006.01
- Features
- Small Caps
- Case Sensitive Layout
- Ligatures
- Common Ligatures
& ISO Codepages
ISO 8859-1
Latin1
Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Danish, English (UK and US), Faroese, Galician, German, Icelandic, Irish (new orthography), Italian, Kurdish (The Kurdish Unified Alphabet), Latin (basic classical orthography), Leonese, Luxembourgish (basic classical orthography), Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk), Occitan, Portuguese (Portuguese and Brazilian), Rhaeto-Romanic, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Walloon
ISO 8859-2
Latin2
Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, German, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian (when in the Latin script), Slovak, Slovene, Upper Sorbian, and Lower Sorbian.
ISO 8859-3
Latin3
Esperanto, Maltese, Turkish
ISO 8859-4
Latin4
Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Greenlandic, Sami
ISO 8859-9
Latin5
Turkish
ISO 8859-10
Latin6
Nordic languages
License Table
| Base License | = | 1 to 3 Computers | |
| Base License | x 2 | = | 4 to 8 Computers |
| Base License | x 3 | = | 9 to 15 Computers |
| Base License | x 4 | = | 16 to 25 Computers |
| Base License | x 5 | = | 26 to 40 Computers |
| Base License | x 6 | = | 41 to 60 Computers |
| Base License | x 7 | = | 61 to 85 Computers |
| Base License | x 8 | = | 86 to 115 Computers |
| Base License | x 10 | = | 116 to 155 Computers |
| Base License | x 12 | = | 156 to 205 Computers |
| Base License | x 14 | = | 206 to 265 Computers |
| Base License | x 16 | = | 266 to 335 Computers |
| Base License | x 18 | = | 336 to 415 Computers |
| Base License | x 20 | = | 416 to 505 Computers |
| Base License | x 25 | = | 506 to 625 Computers |
| Base License | x 30 | = | 626 to 775 Computers |
| Base License | x 37 | = | 776 to 1000 Computers |
| Base License | x 45 | = | 1001 to 1325 Computers |
| Base License | x 55 | = | 1326 to 1800 Computers |
| Base License | x 67 | = | 1801 to 2500 Computers |
| Base License | x 80 | = | 2501 to 3500 Computers |
| Base License | x 100 | = | 3501 to 5000 Computers |
| Base License | x 125 | = | 5001 to 7500 Computers |
| Base License | x 150 | = | 7501 to 12500 Computers |
| Base License | x 200 | = | 12501 to ∞ Computers |
| Supplemental licensing | |||
| Base License | x 3 | = | Web font embedding |
| Base License | x 5 | = | Dynamic embedding |
Constellation End User License Agreement / Version 1.5, April 2013
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