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Compiler

Compiler

by Identity Letters
Individual Styles from $39.00
Complete family of 32 fonts: $229.00
Compiler Font Family was designed by Moritz Kleinsorge and published by Identity Letters. Compiler contains 32 styles and family package options.

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About Compiler Font Family


Legible, technical, clear—with a hint of retro: Compiler is a no-frills font family straight from the heart of a microprocessor.


Inspired by console typefaces, the humanist sans serif typeface combines a large x-height with striking serifs on certain letters such as i and l. Those serifs evoke the aesthetics of monospace typefaces for programming. Even though Compiler is a proportional typeface, this detail improves glyph recognition and helps differentiate between individual letters. Combined with vertical stroke ends, which allow for particularly even spacing, the serifs make for an extremely legible typeface. (Even in small sizes.)


Brand recognition guaranteed: Compiler is ideal for applications that require a mechanical flavor without appearing offish. You can use it for websites, apps, branding, corporate design, annual reports, signage, and many other areas with perfect results.


Compiler consists of two font families; the second one is Compiler Plain. In Compiler Plain, the signature letters lose their serifs and the forms of "a" and "g" are simplified. This way, the shapes are neutralized. The technical impression recedes into the background. Both families can be combined smoothly: you might use the standard Compiler fonts for display sizes and Compiler Plain styles for body copy. For total design control, you can toggle each of the defining design elements individually from Compiler to Compiler Plain and vice versa. Just use Stylistic Sets to fine-tune your Compiler fonts.


Compiler provides you with 8 weights in 4 variations: Upright, Italics, Plain Upright and Plain Italics. That's a total of 32 fonts. Each style contains more than 860 glyphs, including advanced typographic tools such as proportional and tabular figures (both lining and old-style) or small caps—something you'll rarely find in this genre. Other glyphs are optimized for display sizes, such as circled figures and various arrows. There's also a set of glyphs designed for web use: with symbols for shopping carts, hamburger menus or checkboxes, you can implement your web projects elegantly and consistently without relying on third-party tools (like an external icon font).


Powered by highly productive OpenType functions, Compiler is an intermedia workhorse straight from cyberspace.

Designers: Moritz Kleinsorge

Publisher: Identity Letters

Foundry: Identity Letters

Design Owner: Identity Letters

MyFonts debut: Dec 4, 2020

Compiler

About Identity Letters

Identity Letters is a boutique type foundry based in Germany, close to the Dutch border—an ideal place for a straightforward type business. It’s fueled by the cosmopolitan spirit of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, close to the cities of Cologne and Düsseldorf, and informed by a rich cultural history whose traces are ubiquitous in the area. Here we work hard to provide businesses and creatives anywhere in the world with powerful, precisely crafted fonts that get across the right message. Our credo: Typography is not just words. It’s identity. That’s where our mission starts: we create the fonts that suit your type.

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