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| Category | Font superfamily |
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| Classification | Humanist sans-serif Transitional serif Monospaced font |
| Designers | Alexandra Korolkova with Olga Umpelova and Vladimir Yefimov |
| Commissioned by | Rospechat |
| Foundry | ParaType |
| Date created | 2009 |
| Date released | 13 January 2010[1] |
| License | SIL Open Font License orParaType Free Font License |
The Public Type orPT Fonts are a family offree and open-sourcefonts released from 2009 onwards, comprisingPT Sans,PT Serif andPT Mono. They were commissioned from the design agency ParaType byRospechat, a department of the RussianMinistry of Communications, to celebrate the 300th anniversary ofPeter the Great'sorthography reform and to create a font family that supported all thedifferent variations ofCyrillic script used by the minoritylanguages of Russia, as well as theLatin alphabet.[1][2]
Primarily designed byAlexandra Korolkova, the family includessans-serif andserif designs, both withcaption styles for small-print text, and amonospaced font for use in programming. They are available under the English-languageSIL Open Font License; the original font, PT Sans, was also released under ParaType's own Free Font License, and regular and bold with italics is free in Google.[clarification needed][3] Additional styles, such as extended, condensed and extra-bold, are sold from ParaType as PT Sans Pro and PT Serif Pro.[4][5]
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The fonts includeLatin andCyrillic characters and covers almost all minority languages of the Russian Federation. The slashed-Рruble symbol (before it became official in December 2013) is included at the U+20B9…U+20CF code points.
In the most common open-source release, PT Sans and PT Serif feature regular, italic, bold and bold italic designs. They also include acaption style: this is a wider version of the typeface with a greaterx-height (taller lower-case letters), designed for legibility at small font sizes and on outdoor signs. PT Sans also includes a condensed version in regular and bold without italics. In caption styles, PT Serif has a caption italic style while PT Sans has a bold version. PT Mono includes regular and bold styles.
Commercial releases include for PT Sans additional light, demi-bold, extra bold and black weights, in regular, narrow, condensed and extra-condensed styles. PT Serif gains an additional 32 styles, with narrow and extended widths, black, extra-bold and demi-bold weights. The professional releases also addtext figures andsmall caps.
PT Sans is included in theFedora Linux package repository since February 2010,[7] in theGentoo Linux repository since January 2011,[8] and inmacOS sinceOS X Lion.[9]
In 2016, PT Astra Sans and PT Astra Serif fonts were developed for distribution with the RussianAstra Linux operating system. Both fonts are metrically compatible withTimes New Roman.[10][11][12]
In 2021, the PT Astra Fact font was developed for Astra Linux. Based on a design inspired byFrutiger,[13] it is metrically compatible withVerdana. The need for domestic replacements came about as a result of sanctions preventing fonts fromMonotype Imaging from being supplied with Astra Linux.[14]
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