What is the Gimbal Egyptian font?
Gimbal Egyptian is a richly-featured font family providing many style options across a broad range of languages. It is twinned with Gimbal Grotesque, a sans-serif family with an identical range of weights and features.
Originally conceived as a small webfont family, the letterforms have been revitalised to put a spring in their step and the family has been extended to create a versatile multi-script text face equally at home on the printed page. Carefully crafted at all weights, Gimbal also lends itself to headlines and display applications such as posters, exhibitions and signage while resolving well on-screen for general document creation and web-based applications.
The letters are spaced for best readability on-screen and in the usual printed body text ranges but are tolerant of tracking adjustment to suit other uses. The styles are divided by width into four families (Compressed, Condensed, Normal, Extended), each family possessing six weights plus corresponding italics. Within each family, the ‘regular’ and ‘bold’ weights are style-linked, and all upright forms have an italic counterpart.
The full opentype character set includes latin, greek and cyrillic scripts with appropriate local variants (also as stylistic sets) for Turkish, Polish and Romanian (latin) and Russian, Bulgarian and Serbian (cyrillic). All fonts contain small capitals for all scripts, superscript for latin and commonly used greek together with the usual numeral style, size and positioning options. The default numerals are ‘proportional lining’. Other opentype features include case-sensitive marks, fractions, and some discretionary ligatures. A set of circled numerals and circled latin capitals is included, along with an unusual feature that composes 2-character country codes.
Gimbal Egyptian Font families
The Gimbal Egyptian includes the following font families:
- Gimbal Egyptian Compressed Light
- Gimbal Egyptian Compressed Light Italic
- Gimbal Egyptian Compressed Book
- Gimbal Egyptian Compressed Book Italic
- Gimbal Egyptian Compressed Regular
- Gimbal Egyptian Compressed Italic
- Gimbal Egyptian Compressed Medium
- Gimbal Egyptian Compressed Medium Italic
- Gimbal Egyptian Compressed Bold
- Gimbal Egyptian Compressed Bold Italic
- Gimbal Egyptian Compressed Heavy
- Gimbal Egyptian Compressed Heavy Italic
- Gimbal Egyptian Condensed Light
- Gimbal Egyptian Condensed Light Italic
- Gimbal Egyptian Condensed Book
- Gimbal Egyptian Condensed Book Italic
- Gimbal Egyptian Condensed Regular
- Gimbal Egyptian Condensed Italic
- Gimbal Egyptian Condensed Medium
- Gimbal Egyptian Condensed Medium Italic
- Gimbal Egyptian Condensed Bold
- Gimbal Egyptian Condensed Bold Italic
- Gimbal Egyptian Condensed Heavy
- Gimbal Egyptian Condensed Heavy Italic
- Gimbal Egyptian Light
- Gimbal Egyptian Light Italic
- Gimbal Egyptian Book
- Gimbal Egyptian Book Italic
- Gimbal Egyptian Regular
- Gimbal Egyptian Italic
- Gimbal Egyptian Medium
- Gimbal Egyptian Medium Italic
- Gimbal Egyptian Bold
- Gimbal Egyptian Bold Italic
- Gimbal Egyptian Heavy
- Gimbal Egyptian Heavy Italic
- Gimbal Egyptian Extended Light
- Gimbal Egyptian Extended Light Italic
- Gimbal Egyptian Extended Book
- Gimbal Egyptian Extended Book Italic
- Gimbal Egyptian Extended Regular
- Gimbal Egyptian Extended Italic
- Gimbal Egyptian Extended Medium
- Gimbal Egyptian Extended Medium Italic
- Gimbal Egyptian Extended Bold
- Gimbal Egyptian Extended Bold Italic
- Gimbal Egyptian Extended Heavy
- Gimbal Egyptian Extended Heavy Italic
Gimbal Egyptian Preview
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