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About Litteratra
The idea was to do a typeface which creates a dark text block on the page. It seemed worth a try to combine elements of fraktur and roman type, like the first roman with blackletter legacy by Sweynheym & Pannartz, or private press types cut around 1900. And like with early italic types, Litteratra's italic lowercase are accompanied by roman uppercase. This suggested to include italics in the regular font.
With a set of italic lowercase, small caps, spaced uppercase, titling uppercase, with standard and discretionary ligatures, contextual alternates, with oldstyle and lining numerals, both proportional and tabular, with superiors, inferiors and arbitrary fractions (more than 1900 glyphs), Litteratra may be described as a family in one font.
The name Litteratra is a ligature of "littera atra", dark letter.
OpenType features in Litteratra:
Numerals. // Oldstyle Proportional. Oldstyle Tabular. Lining Proportional. Lining Tabular. Superiors, with superscript letters. Inferiors. Numerators. Denominators.
Fractions.
Ordinals.
Caps Case Sensitive Forms. // Spaced uppercase, with alternate punctuation.
Small Caps.
All Small Caps. // With alternate punctuation.
Titling Alternates. // With numerals, currency symbols and punctuation.
Italics (Stylistic Set 1). // Italic lowercase, used with roman uppercase.
(Standard) Ligatures. // Among others, ff, fi, ffi, fl, ffl, gt, tt, tz, plus long-s ligatures if Historical Forms is selected.
Discretionary Ligatures. // For lowercase and italic lowercase. Ligatures like th tw ty tty and historic abbreviations like be bo pe po.
Uppercase Discretionary Ligatures (Stylistic Set 6). // For small caps, uppercase, titling uppercase.
Historical Forms (also in Stylistic Set 18). // Long-s.
Centered Comma (Stylistic Set 11).
Alternate Forms (Stylistic Set 12). // Normalized forms of a, s, S, oldstyle 2.
Contextual Alternates. // Caps spaced for uppercase context. Swash f alternates. AE and OE alternates for lowercase, italic lowercase, small caps context. Paragraph numbers.
Ornaments (also in Stylistic Set 19). // Arrows.
Typographic Spacing (Stylistic Set 20). // Increases space between word and punctuation, word and guillemet, word and index numeral, currency symbol and numeral. (Experimental feature!)
Litteratra is available as an OpenType font. Minimum system requirement is Mac OS X or Windows 2000 / XP. InDesign CS2 is recommended for expert use.