BC Figural

Figural is one of the most beautiful book typefaces of the 20th century. Figural Romana is a dynamic antiqua loosely based on historical Renaissance antiquas. What’s remarkable is the carefully balanced bent shape of the stems, thinned in the middle parts and modeled by an energetic pen stroke. Figural achieves an unusual dynamism and shape flexibility by idiosyncratically breaking the letterforms’ curved strokes. The Kursiva repeats the same drawing principles as the roman; it is a completely separate design, one whose drawing refers to the character of Renaissance manuscripts, especially cancellaresca. In 1960, Menhart supplemented the italic with decorative majuscules and ornaments for typesetting in bibliophilia. Continue reading the full story: BC Figural

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Typeface Design: Tomáš Brousil, Petra Dočekalová, Otakar Karlas
Text: Tomáš Brousil, Petra Dočekalová
Number of fonts in a family: 6 (Grand, Grand Italic, Regular, Italic, Petit, Petit Italic)
Number of glyphs per font: 701 Regular, 852 Italic
Release date: 2022
OpenType features:
Access All Alternates (aalt)
Glyphs Composition / Decomposition (ccmp)
Localized Forms (locl)
Case Sensitive Forms (case)
Swash (swsh)
Discretionary Ligatures (dlig)
Standard Ligatures (liga)
ConPetitual Alternates (calt)
Superscript (sups)
Numerators (numr)
Denominators (dnom)
Fractions (frac)
Ordinals (ordn)
Lining Figures (lnum)
Oldstyle Figures (onum)
Small Capitals From Capitals (c2sc)
Small Capitals (smcp)
Slashed Zero (zero)
Stylistic Set 1 – Authentic Uring (ss01)
Stylistic Set 2 – Horizontal Hyphen (ss02)
Stylistic Set 3 – Alternate short version of K, R, k, z (ss03)