Binario font family


Designed by  Donald Tarallo

Binario is a simple and friendly font with three weights and matching italics (obliques). It is an excellent choice for giving a clean, unique, and modern look to headlines or body text. Use it for branding, menus, posters, magazines, and screen-based design.


All three font weights are versatile and easy to read at any size. It is simple to create organized content because each weight is distinct. The light weight is an excellent body text with generous interior space. The regular weight is a confident body or heading text. The bold weight is superb for impactful headlines. The glyphs are made with tightly rounded forms. This makes reading easy on screens or prints that are low resolution.


Binario supports all Western European languages and comes with 265 glyphs. It offers OpenType features, such as standard ligatures (fl and fi) and a discretionary ligature for LL (useful for Italian and Spanish). Several symbols are also included; train, pointing finger, arrow right, flowers, plus in circle, minus in circle, right-facing arrow head in circle, and a sound recording copyright.


Looking closely at the letters you will see many characteristics that make this font unique. For example, it has a simple one-story a, the tail of the Q is a flat horizontal stroke, the J has a stroke at the top of the stem to prevent irregular letterspacing, the ø has a hollow interior, and the r has a horizontal top hook (ear).


The geometric and modular characteristics of Binario subtly reference the Art Deco and early modernist periods. Designers with an intention to reference these eras will have an easy time with Binario. However, it will also not overpower content. Designers who need a versatile font will find it works well for many different types of communication needs.


Binario was designed in Siena, Italy taking some inspiration from train stations and shop signage. The name Binario means train platform in Italian. Other aspects that informed the design of this font are modularity and efficiency. The interior rounded forms of the letters (counterforms) are based on shape of the Roman arch.


Binario has a sibling, Binario Soft. This version has gently rounded stroke ends, which make a softer impression on the page.




Binario Oblique

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Binario


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Std / OT CFF

supports at least

21 languages.















Technical details
OpenType outline flavour:
CFF - PostScript-Outlines
Technical font names:
File name: Binario-Regular-Oblique.otf
Windows menu name: Binario
PostScript name: , Binario-Oblique
PostScript full name: , Binario-Oblique
Catalog number:
167585536
Characters:
259
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Features

Languages

Fractions

Tag: frac

Function: Replaces figures separated by a slash with 'common' (diagonal) fractions. The user enters 3/4 in a recipe and gets the threequarters fraction.

Standard Ligatures

Tag: liga

Function: Replaces a sequence of glyphs with a single glyph which is preferred for typographic purposes. This feature covers the ligatures which the designer/manufacturer judges should be used in normal conditions. The glyph for ffl replaces the sequence of glyphs f f l.

Ordinals

Tag: ordn

Function: Replaces default alphabetic glyphs with the corresponding ordinal forms for use after figures. One exception to the follows-a-figure rule is the numero character (U+2116), which is actually a ligature substitution, but is best accessed through this feature. The user applies this feature to turn 2.o into 2.o (abbreviation for secundo).

Superscript

Tag: sups

Function: Replaces lining or oldstyle figures with superior figures (primarily for footnote indication), and replaces lowercase letters with superior letters (primarily for abbreviated French titles). The application can use this feature to automatically access the superior figures (more legible than scaled figures) for footnotes, or the user can apply it to Mssr to get the classic form.

Discretionary Ligatures

Tag: dlig

Function: Replaces a sequence of glyphs with a single glyph which is preferred for typographic purposes. This feature covers those ligatures which may be used for special effect, at the user's preference. The glyph for ct replaces the sequence of glyphs c t, or U+322E (Kanji ligature for "Friday") replaces the sequence U+91D1 U+66DC U+65E5.

Kerning

Tag: kern

Function: Adjusts amount of space between glyphs, generally to provide optically consistent spacing between glyphs. Although a well-designed typeface has consistent inter-glyph spacing overall, some glyph combinations require adjustment for improved legibility. Besides standard adjustment in the horizontal direction, this feature can supply size-dependent kerning data via device tables, "cross-stream" kerning in the Y text direction, and adjustment of glyph placement independent of the advance adjustment. Note that this feature may apply to runs of more than two glyphs, and would not be used in monospaced fonts. Also note that this feature does not apply to text set vertically. The o is shifted closer to the T in the combination "To."

These fonts support the Basic Latin character set. Each font is Unicode™ encoded, and available in d

Tag: Basic Latin

Function: These fonts support the Basic Latin character set. Each font is Unicode™ encoded, and available in different formats. Please review the product information for each font to ensure it will meet your requirements.