Peristyle
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How to use
Peristyle
Not only a family of headline sans serifs, Peristyle includes a stencil typeface with a built-in mechanism for improving the quality of two-color typography.
The Peristyle family contains six weights from Light to Black. Peristyle maintains visually consistent intervals between its weights, to ensure that every style has a heavier counterpart that provides the same degree of emphasis.
For every weight of Peristyle, the style that’s three steps heavier has sufficient visual contrast to serve as a boldface:
Peristyle is a display face, designed for use at headline sizes and above. The following table offers 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.
Peristyle
Peristyle Stencil
Peristyle Stencil is provided as both a standalone family, and a set of two-color chromatic layers.
3.1Chromatic Layers
Peristyle Stencil’s Layer One and Layer Two fonts can be individually colored and superimposed in register, to create different typographic effects:
Many of Peristyle’s special characters and alternates are grouped into Stylistic Sets, an OpenType feature available in many applications that makes it easier to apply related substitutions together.
Peristyle automatically adjusts spacing and character choices to improve typography.
5.1Kerning
Peristyle 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.
5.2Color Balancing
The bicolor Peristyle Stencil Layers fonts automatically adjust the assignment of colors from shape to shape, in order to prevent either color from clustering.
5.3Capital Punctuation
Some design applications include an all caps option that not only capitalizes lowercase letters, but invokes the feature in Peristyle that substitutes capital-aligned numbers and punctuation. This raises characters such as dashes and enclosures so that they center on the caps, and substitutes the forms of symbols designed to accompany Peristyle’s lining figures.
Peristyle features H&Co’s Expanded Latin character set.
Peristyle 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.