Compatil®
The need to read and absorb information quickly and easily has never been greater.
The amount of information available to us, either on paper or on screen, grows daily. It is essential to have a typeface that is both extremely legible as well as aesthetically pleasing.
Linotype´s Compatil is the first type system that incorporates such a comprehensive range of typographic features, delivering optimal legibility and design potential.
The metric and visual concept that is used for Compatil allows type styles to be mixed and interchanded seemlessly due to identical letterspacing within individual heights. This universal type system can be employed for virtually all aspects of corporate communication – from websites to annual reports as well as for mass composition for books, magazines and newspapers.
The Compatil type system is a model of technical innovation offering a new level of design quality. The system is comprised of four different type styles: Compatil Exquisit, Compatil Fact, Compatil Letter and Compatil Text .
By maintaining a consistent letter width throughout each of the four type styles, this system allows the same character from each of the styles to be interchanged with one another, without having any effect on the width of the text.
Having equal proportions and identical gray tones inside each of the styles and weights allows all of the system´s typefaces to be comfortable combined with one another and gives one the widest range of aesthetic combinations possible.
Compatil®, along with Avenir® Next, Eurostile® Next, Optima® nova, Univers® Next (formerly Linotype Univers), Frutiger® Next, Sabon® Next, Syntax® Next (formerly Linotype Syntax) and Palatino® nova belongs to the typefaces of the Linotype Platinum Collection.
These fonts were carefully digitized and have the high quality demanded by professional typography. All fonts of the Platinum Collection were produced according to the Linotype tradition of quality.
Linotype and its authorized partners offer these fonts as Platinum Collections CDs or as single fonts or value packs.
The amount of information available to us, either on paper or on screen, grows daily. It is essential to have a typeface that is both extremely legible as well as aesthetically pleasing.
Linotype´s Compatil is the first type system that incorporates such a comprehensive range of typographic features, delivering optimal legibility and design potential.
The metric and visual concept that is used for Compatil allows type styles to be mixed and interchanded seemlessly due to identical letterspacing within individual heights. This universal type system can be employed for virtually all aspects of corporate communication – from websites to annual reports as well as for mass composition for books, magazines and newspapers.
The Compatil type system is a model of technical innovation offering a new level of design quality. The system is comprised of four different type styles: Compatil Exquisit, Compatil Fact, Compatil Letter and Compatil Text .
By maintaining a consistent letter width throughout each of the four type styles, this system allows the same character from each of the styles to be interchanged with one another, without having any effect on the width of the text.
Having equal proportions and identical gray tones inside each of the styles and weights allows all of the system´s typefaces to be comfortable combined with one another and gives one the widest range of aesthetic combinations possible.
Compatil®, along with Avenir® Next, Eurostile® Next, Optima® nova, Univers® Next (formerly Linotype Univers), Frutiger® Next, Sabon® Next, Syntax® Next (formerly Linotype Syntax) and Palatino® nova belongs to the typefaces of the Linotype Platinum Collection.
These fonts were carefully digitized and have the high quality demanded by professional typography. All fonts of the Platinum Collection were produced according to the Linotype tradition of quality.
Linotype and its authorized partners offer these fonts as Platinum Collections CDs or as single fonts or value packs.
PAGE article issue 11/2001 about Compatil is available as pdf file. Please download:
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