FF Dax® famille de polices


Conçue par  Hans Reichel en 1996
FF Dax: A distinctive, perfectly equipped and versatile font family
The multi-talented Hans Reichel not only designed fonts and worked as a graphic designer, he was also a musician and instrument maker. He invented the daxophone, an instrument consisting of wooden tongues of various shapes that are played with a bow. It is no coincidence that Reichel's magnum opus, the FF Dax? font family, shares a similar name. Reichel cleverly combined in FF Dax the clear and neutral forms of a structured grotesque with a humanist touch. The lack of spurs lend the letters a very reduced, almost technical character. Round letter forms that recall an Antiqua in some cases and a clear contrast in the stroke width counter the formal character, creating a fascinating internal tension and giving the font a friendly flair. The open counters and a large X-height serve to reinforce this impression. The bows that stick out above and below the stem are also very distinctive; they give the letters a kind of thickset appearance. The uppercase "D", as well as "B", "d" and "p" are good examples of this.
The members of the extended FF Dax super-family are highly specialized, and optimized for very specific areas of application.

FF Dax
The original version of the font, equipped for practically all typographic tasks. It comes with three widths, Condensed, Normal and Wide, as well as six weights, each with a passing italic. Use these fonts for high-volume typesetting, headlines and logos, for example. Old-style figures and small capitals round out the features of FF Dax?.

FF Dax Compact
The condensed headline font FF Dax? Compact shares the same basic letterforms of FF Dax. It has a larger X-height, however, and shorter ascenders and descenders. Apart from that, the lower-case letters are designed with ascenders in the same size as the capitals. Although FF Dax Compact has a width similar to FF Dax? Condensed, this design trick makes it appear narrower and somewhat larger. It is the ideal font wherever space is limited and performs particularly well in newspaper or magazine headlines, for example, or on flyers.

FF Daxline
Slightly wider characters, lower contrast in the stroke width and larger capitals make the design of FF Daxline? optimal for high-volume typesetting. Without losing the characteristics of FF Dax, FF Daxline can also achieve its full effect in the smaller font sizes. In addition to the six familiar FF Dax weights, FF Daxline has another, even finer Thin style. As always, old-style figures, small capitals and some symbols round out the font.
Of course, all styles in the large FF Dax family are coordinated and combine well with one another. For example, use FF Daxline for text and FF Dax Compact for headlines.

FF Dax Condensed Extra Bold

Les fontes d’ordinateurs de bureau sont conçues pour être installées sur un ordinateur et avec des applications. Licence par utilisateur.
Les polices web annuelles sont concédées sous licence pour un nombre déterminé de pages vues.
Les polices web annuelles sont concédées sous licence pour un nombre déterminé de pages vues.
La licence d’utilisation de l’application vous permet d’intégrer des polices dans vos applications. La licence peut se référer au nombre d’applications différentes ou au nombre d’installations d’une application.
Les polices de documents électroniques peuvent être intégrées dans un e-book, un magazine électronique ou un journal électronique. Les polices sont sous licences annuelles pour chaque publication.
Les fontes pour serveurs peuvent être installées sur un serveur ou p. ex. être utilisées par des processus automatisés afin de créer des éléments. Chaque serveur possède une licence valable un an.
Une licence Digital Ads vous permet d’intégrer des polices Web dans des publicités numériques, telles que les publicités HTML5. Cette licence est basée sur le nombre d’impressions publicitaires.
FF Dax


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Détails techniques
Type de contours OpenType:
TTF - TrueType-Outlines
Noms techniques des fontes:
Nom du fichier: DaxOT-CondXbold.ttf
Nom du menu Windows: Dax OT Cond Xbold
Nom PostScript: , DaxOT-CondXbold
Nom PostScript complet: , Dax OT Cond Xbold
Numéro de catalogue:
168374820
Characters:
476
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Case-Sensitive Forms

Tag: case

Fonction: Shifts various punctuation marks up to a position that works better with all-capital sequences or sets of lining figures; also changes oldstyle figures to lining figures. By default, glyphs in a text face are designed to work with lowercase characters. Some characters should be shifted vertically to fit the higher visual center of all-capital or lining text. Also, lining figures are the same height (or close to it) as capitals, and fit much better with all-capital text. The user selects a block of text and applies this feature. The dashes, bracketing characters, guillemet quotes and the like shift up to match the capitals, and oldstyle figures change to lining figures.

Denominators

Tag: dnom

Fonction: Replaces selected figures which follow a slash with denominator figures. In the string 11/17 selected by the user, the application turns the 17 into denominators when the user applies the fraction feature.

Fractions

Tag: frac

Fonction: 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

Fonction: 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.

Lining Figures

Tag: lnum

Fonction: This feature changes selected figures from oldstyle to the default lining form. The user invokes this feature in order to get lining figures, which fit better with all-capital text. Various characters designed to be used with figures may also be covered by this feature. In cases where lining figures are the default form, this feature would undo previous substitutions.

Numerators

Tag: numr

Fonction: Replaces selected figures which precede a slash with numerator figures, and replaces the typographic slash with the fraction slash. In the string 11/17 selected by the user, the application turns the 11 into numerators, and the slash into a fraction slash when the user applies the fraction feature.

Old Style Figures

Tag: onum

Fonction: This feature changes selected figures from the default lining style to oldstyle form. The user invokes this feature to get oldstyle figures, which fit better into the flow of normal upper- and lowercase text. Various characters designed to be used with figures may also have oldstyle versions.

Ordinals

Tag: ordn

Fonction: 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).

Proportional Figures

Tag: pnum

Fonction: Replaces figure glyphs set on uniform (tabular) widths with corresponding glyphs set on glyph-specific (proportional) widths. Tabular widths will generally be the default, but this cannot be safely assumed. Of course this feature would not be present in monospaced designs. The user may apply this feature to get even spacing for lining figures used as dates in an all-cap headline.

Scientific Inferiors

Tag: sinf

Fonction: Replaces lining or oldstyle figures with inferior figures (smaller glyphs which sit lower than the standard baseline, primarily for chemical or mathematical notation). May also replace lowercase characters with alphabetic inferiors. The application can use this feature to automatically access the inferior figures (more legible than scaled figures).

Superscript

Tag: sups

Fonction: 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.

Tabular Figures

Tag: tnum

Fonction: Replaces figure glyphs set on proportional widths with corresponding glyphs set on uniform (tabular) widths. Tabular widths will generally be the default, but this cannot be safely assumed. Of course this feature would not be present in monospaced designs. The user may apply this feature to get oldstyle figures to align vertically in a column.

Subscript

Tag: subs

Fonction: The "subs" feature may replace a default glyph with a subscript glyph, or it may combine a glyph substitution with positioning adjustments for proper placement. Recommended implementation: First, a single or contextual substitution lookup implements the subscript glyph (GSUB lookup type 1). Then, if the glyph needs repositioning, an application may apply a single adjustment, pair adjustment, or contextual adjustment positioning lookup to modify its position.

Capital Spacing

Tag: cpsp

Fonction: Globally adjusts inter-glyph spacing for all-capital text. Most typefaces contain capitals and lowercase characters, and the capitals are positioned to work with the lowercase. When capitals are used for words, they need more space between them for legibility and esthetics. This feature would not apply to monospaced designs. Of course the user may want to override this behavior in order to do more pronounced letterspacing for esthetic reasons. The user sets a title in all caps, and the Capital Spacing feature opens the spacing.

Kerning

Tag: kern

Fonction: 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."

Alternate Annotation Forms

Tag: nalt

Fonction: Replaces default glyphs with various notational forms (e.g. glyphs placed in open or solid circles, squares, parentheses, diamonds or rounded boxes). In some cases an annotation form may already be present, but the user may want a different one. The user invokes this feature to get U+3200 (the circled form of 'ga') from U+3131 (hangul 'ga').

Required Ligatures

Tag: rlig

Fonction: Replaces a sequence of glyphs with a single glyph which is preferred for typographic purposes. This feature covers those ligatures, which the script determines as required to be used in normal conditions. This feature is important for some scripts to insure correct glyph formation. The Arabic character lam followed by alef will always form a ligated lamalef form. This ligated form is a requirement of the script's shaping. The same happens with the Syriac script.

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

Tag: Basic Latin

Fonction: 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.