Foundry List
Provided Formats
Macintosh
OpenType PS (.otf)
Windows
OpenType PS (.otf)
legacy formats available upon request
Download Apex New specimen (PDF) 
About Apex New
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.
Supported languages
Afrikaans, Albanian, Arumanian, Asturian, Azerbaijani, Basque, romanised Belarusian, Bislama, Breton, Bosnian, romanised Bulgarian, romanised Burmese, Catalan, Chamorro, Chichewa, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Old English, Middle English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, German, traditional German, transliterated Greek, Greenlandic, Guarani, Hawai'ian, Hungarian, Ibo, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish Gaelic, Italian, romanised Japanese, Kashubian, romanised Kazakh, romanised Korean, Kurdish, romanised Kyrgyz, romanised Laotian, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Livonian, romanised Macedonian, Malagasy, Maltese, Maori, Marshallese, Moldavian, romanised Mongolian, Norwegian, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Romansch, romanised Russian, Inari Saami, North Saami, Lule Saami, Skolt Saami, South Saami, Samoan, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Slovak, Slovenian, Lower Sorbian, Upper Sorbian, Spanish, Traditional Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, romanised Tajik, romanised Tatar, Tswana, Tongan, Turkish, romanised Turkmen, romanised Ukrainian, Ulithian, Uzbek, Walloon, Welsh, Wolof, Yapese, and many transliterated South Asian languages
Supported ISO codepages
8859-1 Latin 1 (West European)
8859-2 Latin 2 (Central European)
8859-3 Latin 3 (South European)
8859-4 Latin 4 (Baltic)
8859-9 Latin 5 (Turkish)
8859-10 Latin 6 (Scandinavian)
8859-13 Latin 7 (Baltic 2)
8859-15 Latin 9
8859-16 Latin 10
Glyphset contents
// Integrated Small Caps with full accents
// Ten numeral sets: Default "Hybrid", Lining Proportional, Lining Tabular, Oldstyle Proportional, Oldstyle Tabular, Small Cap Proportional, Small Cap Tabular, Numerators, Denominators, Scientific Inferiors
// "Schoolbook" variants: a, g, y
// Common mathematical symbols, cap-height versions (plus, minus, multiplication, division, equals, greater than, and less than) and small versions for Numerators, etc.: plus, minus, equals, left and right parentheses
// Monetary symbols in Default, Lining, and Oldstyle for Euro, Dollar, Cent, Colon, Cruzeiro, Franc, Lira, Naira, Peseta, Rupee, Won, New Sheqel, Tugrik, Peso, Baht
// A set of ligatures: fb ffb ff fh ffh fi ffi fj ffj fk ffk fl ffl ft fft ftt tt, including Turkish variants of f and ff with dotless i
// Ordinal a, c, and o, and complete superscript lowercase
// Arrows and arrowheads at 0, 45, 90, 135, 180, 225, 270, and 315 degrees
// Card suits: Spade, Club, Heart, Diamond
// Musical keys: Flat, Natural, Sharp
// Recycled & Recyclable symbols
// Commercial glyphs: estimated, litre, SM, TM, copyright, published, registered, registered superscript
// A full complement of spaces: en, em, 3/em, 4/em, 6/em, figure, punctuation, thin, hair, zero-width
// A full complement of dashes for Ulc and UC setting: hyphen, 1/3 em, en, 3/4 em, em, figure
// Useful geometric shapes: Solid Circle, Outline Circle, x-height Solid Circle, Solid Square, Outline Square, X-marked Square, x-height Solid Square, x-height Outline Square, x-height X-marked Square
// "Licko-style" mirrored single and double quotation marks
// New ampersand, alternate "legacy" ampersand, Small Cap ampersand
// The interrobang, the combination exclamation/question mark, including inverted versions for Spanish interrobanging
Note that Apex New ships in cross-platform OpenType PS format only.
Apex New (on the left) compared with Apex Sans (on the right)
