Chronicle Display
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How to use
Chronicle Display
Bringing the classic ‘Scotch’ style up to date, Chronicle Display is an extensive family of headline faces rooted in news typography. It features an expressive range of weights, space-efficient Condensed and Compressed styles, and versions for different sizes to keep its serifs and hairlines always crisp, lively, and eloquent.
The Chronicle Display family contains six weights from Extra Light to Black, each provided in roman and italic. Chronicle maintains consistent intervals between its weights, to ensure that each style can be paired with another to provide the same degree of emphasis.
For every weight of Chronicle Display, the style that’s two steps heavier has sufficient visual contrast to serve as a boldface:
The same goes for the five styles of Chronicle Display Condensed:
...and the four styles of Chronicle Display Compressed:
Use Chronicle Display’s italics to distinguish type without changing its weight:
Chronicle Display Condensed also includes italics for every style:
...as does Chronicle Display Compressed:
Designed for large sizes, the collection includes Chronicle Display for headlines, Chronicle Deck for subheads, and Chronicle Hairline for truly monumental typography
2.1Using Optical Sizes
To ensure that its delicate features are always crisp and legible, Chronicle is offered in three different optical sizes, each designed for use at a different scale. The delicate details in Chronicle Hairline are intended for the very largest sizes, Chronicle Display for headlines, and Chronicle Deck for subheads. For setting text, use the Chronicle Text family (available separately), whose robust construction is designed to withstand reproduction at the very smallest size
The following tables offer some conservative guidelines for the smallest sizes at which the fonts can comfortably be reproduced and read, assuming typical reading conditions, and conventional contrast between type and background colors. The recommendations for sizes on screen are based on the coarser resolutions of older, entry-level monitors: at the higher resolutions available on modern phones, tablets, and laptops, type is viable at even smaller sizes.
Outsize
Headlines
Condensed Headlines
Compressed Headlines
Subheads
Condensed Subheads
Chronicle uses Stylistic Sets, an OpenType feature available in many applications that makes it easier to apply related substitutions together.
3.1Stylistic Sets
Chronicle automatically adjusts spacing and character choices to improve typography.
4.1Ligatures
Collisions with the lowercase f are resolved by ligatures that are automatically substituted for the combinations fb, ff, fh, fi, fj, fk, fl, ffb, ffh, ffi, ffj, ffk, and ffl.
When letterspacing the lowercase, ligatures should be disabled.
4.2Kerning
Chronicle is spaced and kerned to perform in most circumstances without the need for manual intervention. In applications that offer multiple options for kerning type, always use the default kerning that’s native to the typefaces (labeled auto in Illustrator, and metrics in InDesign) — never use the setting for optical kerning.
So-called ‘optical kerning’ was originally developed as an automated assist for fonts that lack kerning. But applied to a professional typeface, it overrides the visual decisions made by the font’s designers, and instead spaces characters using a mathematical model. It routinely misjudges common pairs and ignores important context, creating erratic and disruptive rhythms. Because its algorithms are subject to change with each software update, ‘optical kerning’ can cause text to be reflowed without notice.
Chronicle Display features H&Co’s Expanded Latin character set.
Chronicle Display supports 503 languages including Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Basque, Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Cebuano, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Kurdish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgeois, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Sardinian, Scots Gaelic, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, Welsh, and Zulu.
