Whitenights is a contemporary text family, which was developed by the prolific Swedish typographer Lars Bergquist in 2002. Containing five weights (11 different fonts total), this family contains every tool you need to set splendid text. The base font of the family is
Whitenights Regular, a reliable face designed in the old style manner. It ships in OpenType format, with old style figures.
Whitenights Ligatures Regular is a supplementary font, which contains many extra ligatures (e.g., ffb, ffk, tt, and fj) whose use will improve the "color" of a page of text set in Whitenights Regular.
Whitenights Regular may be accented by combination with
Whitenights Small Caps, Whitenights Italic, Whitenights Bold, and/or
Whitenights Bold Italic. The Whitenights Italic, Bold and Bold Italic styles all have supplementary Ligature fonts available for purchase, similar to the
Whitenights Ligatures Regular face described above.
For larger, headline text, the specially designed
Whitenights Titling is quite useful. This titling font has been optically redrawn and respaced for use in large sizes. Naturally, it has its own supplementary Ligature font as well. In books, magazines, and newsletters this font is a great display companion to the rest of the Whitenights family. Its use in conjunction with the text faces will make your typographical compositions more sophisticated. Last but not least in the Whitenights family is
Whitenights Math, which contains many additional mathematical and logical glyphs not found in a standard font's character set.
Used together, the above 12 styles can set almost any text or math-based document. The entire family is included in the
Take Type 5 collection from Linotype GmbH.
