Swedish designer Mårten Thavenius created Aptifer™ Sans and Aptifer™ Slab for the Linotype Library in 2006. Apart from designing type faces, Mårten Thavenius develops user interfaces for online solutions, mostly complex web based applications and portal systems. Visual design, usability and readability as well as technical implementations are on his daily agenda. He is currently working as a Senior GUI Architect at IBM.
Marten Thavenius lives in Belgium and Sweden.
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Mårten Thavenius designed Aptifer in 2006. The typeface family consists of two subfamilies: Aptifer Sans and Aptifer Slab. Each of them has seven weights – thin, light, regular, medium, semibold, bold, and black – in roman and italic respectively, making 28 font styles in total.
A heritage from two design traditions can be seen in Aptifer. One is the robust American gothic typefaces, like M. F. Benton’s, from around 1900. This is combined with the openness and legibility that comes from the [...]
Aptifer Sans Value Pack, Four fonts: Aptifer Sans Regular, Aptifer Sans Italic, Aptifer Sans Bold, and Aptifer Sans Bold Italic! A 21st century typeface created by Mårten Thavenius, each Aptifer Sans font contains an OpenType character set, with 922 glyphs! The following codepages are fully supported in Aptifer Sans: 1252 Latin 1, 1250 Latin 2: Eastern Europe, 1254 Turkish, and 1257 Baltic. A heritage from two design traditions can be seen in Aptifer Sans. One is from the robust American gothic typefaces, Morris Fuller Benton's work ca. 1900, for instance. This is combined with the openness and legibility that comes from the humanist tradition, a trait also found in Adrian Frutiger's typefaces.
Aptifer is a trademark of Linotype GmbH and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
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