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| Category | Font superfamily |
|---|---|
| Classification | Humanist sans-serif Transitional serif Monospaced font |
| Designer(s) | 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 or ParaType Free Font License |
The Public Type or PT Fonts are a family of free and open-source fonts released from 2009 onwards, comprising PT Sans, PT Serif and PT Mono. They were commissioned from the design agency ParaType by Rospechat, a department of the Russian Ministry of Communications, to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Peter the Great's orthography reform and to create a font family that supported all the different variations of Cyrillic script used by the minority languages of Russia, as well as the Latin alphabet.[1][2]
Primarily designed by Alexandra Korolkova, the family includes sans-serif and serif designs, both with caption styles for small-print text, and a monospaced font for use in programming. They are available under the English-language SIL 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.[3] Additional styles, such as extended, condensed and extra-bold, are sold from ParaType as PT Sans Pro and PT Serif Pro.[4][5]
- ^ a b Создан шрифт, поддерживающий все языки народов России (in Russian). Vesti. 2010-01-13. Retrieved 2010-08-04.
- ^ Разработан новый шрифт с поддержкой всех языков Российской Федерации (in Russian). Rossiyskaya Gazeta. 2010-01-14. Retrieved 2010-08-04.
- ^ "New version of PT Sans". 2010-04-02. Archived from the original on 2010-08-19. Retrieved 2010-08-04.
- ^ "PT Sans Pro". MyFonts. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
- ^ "PT Serif Pro". MyFonts. Retrieved 21 September 2014.