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Gimbal Egyptian

Gimbal Egyptian

by AVP
Individual Styles from $19.00
Complete family of 12 fonts: $99.00
Gimbal Egyptian Font Family was designed by Nicholas Garner and published by AVP. Gimbal Egyptian contains 48 styles and family package options.

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About Gimbal Egyptian Font Family


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.

Designers: Nicholas Garner

Publisher: AVP

Foundry: AVP

Design Owner: AVP

MyFonts debut: Mar 15, 2018

Gimbal Egyptian

About AVP

Aviation Partners is a small London-based partnership which designs for print and internet. Font creation started as a supporting service but has now become a significant activity in its own right. The fact that so many excellent fonts already exist does not discourage us in the least. Just like tunes, there is always room for one more, particularly a good one. The idea of offering fonts for sale is recent, but now that the ball is rolling, we expect to develop many more. The challenge for us is to produce distinctive everyday fonts which we ourselves will want to use.

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