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Bague Universal Pro
Bague Universal is a contemporary geometric typeface superfamily which blends distinct minimalist characteristics with mainstream details. It incorporates humanist characteristics as well as classic letterform shapes with a high degree of legibility which balance out the extremity of the minimal shapes.
€695.00 complete family
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Designer: Panos Vassiliou
Bague Universal is a contemporary geometric typeface superfamily which blends distinct minimalist characteristics with mainstream details. Despite its inspiration from Herbert Bayer’s drawing of the 1920s, it diverts from the constructivist rigidity and display structure of early geometric typefaces by incorporating humanist characteristics as well as classic letterform shapes with a high degree of legibility which balance out the extremity of the minimal shapes. This leads to a very clean and legible typeface with a warm well-balanced texture and a distinct personality. Bague Universal is a typeface that stays true to its urban nature and heritage. It is ideal for intense editorial use in magazines and is totally recommended for forward-thinking corporate environments, music, fashion, technology startups and socially active individuals.
Another remarkable feature of Bague Universal is its vast array of uppercase alternates and ligatures which truly shine when set at display sizes. Make your selection from 6 distinct groups of alternates as well as a rich set of discretionary ligatures and watch it transform into a flexible, charming and stylish typeface with strong modern aesthetics. This typeface offers enormous possibilities and variations for editorial design, branding and corporate identity. The Bague Universal superfamily includes 18 weights from Hairline to Ultra Black and matching true-italics with a consistent and well-refined structure. Each style consists of 1017 glyphs with more that 280 alternates and ligatures and an extended set of characters which supports simultaneously Latin, Cyrillic and Greek.
Fractions: Figures separated by slash, are replaced with diagonal fractions.
Ligatures: Replaces a sequence of glyphs with a single glyph, creating a professional-looking text with no peculiar collisions among letters. This feature covers the standard f-ligatures, as well as few other ones used in normal conditions.
Discretionary Ligatures: Replaces a sequence of glyphs with a single glyph. It differs from the previous feature in the fact that it activates special (non-standard) ligatures for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. This set includes capital letters only.
Oldstyle figures: Changes selected figures from the default lining to oldstyle i.e. numbers of varying height. These are appropriate for use with lowercase text. They come in two different styles: tabular and proportional. Tabular figures have equal widths (useful for tables, so that numbers line
up from one line to the next) whereas proportional have varying widths and are basically used within a sentence.
Lining figures: This feature changes selected figures from oldstyle to the default lining form. Lining figures are numbers which fit better with all-capital text and they are of the same height as capitals or a bit smaller. They also come in two different styles: tabular and proportional.
Proportional figures: Replaces selected figure glyphs which are set on tabular widths (lining or oldstyle), with corresponding glyphs set on proportional widths (lining or oldstyle).
Tabular figures: Replaces selected figure glyphs which are set on proportional widths (lining or oldstyle), with corresponding glyphs set on tabular widths (lining or oldstyle).
Ordinals: Contextually replaces default alphabetic glyphs which follow numbers with superscripted glyphs and the sequence ‘No’ with the numero character (No). This feature includes Latin as well as Greek lowercase and capital ordinals
Stylistic Alternates: Replaces non-standard glyphs with alternate forms purely for aesthetic reasons.
Stylistic Alternates Set 3: includes a set of uppercase Latin, Cyrillic and Greek letters which replace a capital letter of your choice with a smaller one which sits under the Caps height. View the full list on the character set page.
These sets work together with one on top of the other. Stylistic Set 04 includes uppercase glyphs which are smaller that those in set 01. They sit under the caps height, whilst Stylistic Set 05 includes uppercase glyphs which sit on the baseline and under those in set 04. Both sets include Latin, Cyrillic and Greek glyphs. View the full list on the character set page.
Stylistic Set 6: includes a number of uppercase letters extended vertically under the baseline and above the caps height in Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. View more samples in the specimen pages.
Stylistic Alternates Set 1: includes alternate glyphs replaced mainly for aesthetic reasons and Stylistic Alternates Set 2: includes a number of unicase letters which replace a limited number of uppercase letters at will.
Stylistic Set 7: includes a number of uppercase letters in an extended (horizontally) form. It offers a rather unique alternate setting in Latin, Cyrillic and Greek. View more samples in the specimen pages.
Superiors: Replaces lining and oldstyle figures with superior figures and lowercase letters with
superior letters. These superior glyphs are not computer generated scaled-down versions but are rather
redesigned to match the weight of the regular glyphs. Superior figures are used mainly for footnotes
and superior letters for abbreviated titles (this feature includes Latin as well as Greek superior
lowercase and capital letters).
Scientific inferiors: Replaces lining and oldstyle figures with inferior figures. They have been
designed to match the weight of the regular glyphs and sit lower than the standard baseline. Used
primarily for mathematical and chemical notations.
SCRIPTS
1250 Eastern European , 1251 Cyrillic , 1252 Latin 1 , 1253 Greek , 1254 Turkish , 1257 BalticSUPPORTED LANGUAGES
Albanian, Bosnian (Latin), Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Sorbian, Azeri (Cyrillic), Belarusian, Bosnian (Cyrillic), Bulgarian, Kyrgyz, Macedonian (FYROM), Moldovian, Mongolian, Russian, Serbian, Tatar, Ukrainian, Uzbek (Cyrillic), Afrikaans, Alsatian, Basque, Bislama, Breton, Catalan, Chamorro, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Finnish, Flemish, Franco-Provencal, French, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Ladin, Latin, Luxembourgish, Malay, ManxGaelic, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Occitan, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romance, Romansh, Sami (Inari), Sami (Lule), Sami (Skolt), Sami (Southern), ScottishGaelic, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Walloon, Welsh, Greek, Azeri (Latin), Kurdish (Latin), Turkish, Uzbek (Latin), Estonian, Latvian, LithuanianNAME
PF Bague Uni ProFORMAT
OpenType PSPACKAGE
Family of 18 fonts (also available as separate weights)GLYPHS
1017 glyphs /font
PRO FEATURES
Standard f-Ligatures, Discretionary Ligatures, Oldstyle Figures (tabular/proportional), Lining Figures (tabular/proportional), Superiors (numerals/lowercase letters), Scientific Inferiors, Fractions, Ordinals, Stylistic Alternates, Numerators / denominators, Case Sensitive Forms, Capital spacing, Stylistic Set 1, Stylistic Set 2, Stylistic Set 3, Stylistic Set 4, Stylistic Set 5, Stylistic Set 6, Stylistic Set 7, Access All Alternates
PRICE
family: €695.00single weight: €65.00