Compatil®
Compatil combines simple yet effective design with a highly innovative type system. The ability to easily set text with different but compatible styles opens up unlimited horizons for typographic creativtity.
The Compatil type system was created to allow different tones of text to be expressed and emphasised through compatible type styles. These expressive and emotional characteristics cover all possible applications and are fundamental for effective typography.
Compatil Exquisit gives the feelings of a poetic and narrative nature and posses discriptive, distinguished and classic qualities.
Compatil Fact combines the qualities of being objective and informative and comes across as sober, functional and stable.
Compatil Letter gives the impression of being informative and poetic and is discriminating, balanced yet robust in character.
Compatil Text has a semantic profile that is midway between narrative and objective. Its features are reserved, factual and authoritative.
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 Compatil type system was created to allow different tones of text to be expressed and emphasised through compatible type styles. These expressive and emotional characteristics cover all possible applications and are fundamental for effective typography.
Compatil Exquisit gives the feelings of a poetic and narrative nature and posses discriptive, distinguished and classic qualities.
Compatil Fact combines the qualities of being objective and informative and comes across as sober, functional and stable.
Compatil Letter gives the impression of being informative and poetic and is discriminating, balanced yet robust in character.
Compatil Text has a semantic profile that is midway between narrative and objective. Its features are reserved, factual and authoritative.
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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