Palatino Sans

Palatino Sans has several additional features. The OpenType possibilities are used to expand the character set. The wooden case of a compositor in the old days only had space for 125 letters. The Palatino Sans alphabets offer in addition old style figures, small caps iin upright and in italic, fractions, ordinals and two ornaments and two different ampersands:





Ligatures – the advantage of OpenType allow for extra f-ligatures, like ffl, ffi, fft etc., and nice ligatures like ct, et, st, and sp.







For the Palatino Sans Ultra Light some special combinations are designed for headlines and advertising purpose (they are not available for Palatino Sans Regular).





Figures – the readability of figures is very important in our world of numerals. Special care was taken for the figures designed for the Palatino Sans to avoid mistakes and confusion especially in very small sizes like they are used for telephone numbers and bank accounts on stationary. Here a comparison with usual figures





and the figures in Palatino Sans Bold





and as a second choice in Palatino Sans Informal Bold






Arrows – for Palatino Sans Ultra Light a set of arrows enlarge the versatility of this alphabet, to be arranged as signals, pointers or markers. Not only in connection with Palatino Sans Ultra Light but in the same way with other Roman and sans serif types. They should be taken sparingly in job, the same recommendation of course with the special all-caps ligatures for Palatino Sans Ultra Light.