Rotis
Sign in to saveRotis is a typeface developed in 1988 by Otl Aicher, a German graphic designer and typographer. In Rotis, Aicher explores an attempt at maximum legibility through a highly unified yet varied typeface family that ranges from full serif, glyphic, and sans-serif. The four basic Rotis variants are:
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- font superfamily
- Subclass of
- sans-serif typeface
- Designed by
- Otl Aicher
- Image
- Rotisng.svg
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- Commons category
- Rotis (font)
- inception
- 1988-00-00
- type foundry
- Agfa-Gevaert
- writing system
- Cyrillic script
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Monotype Originals Rotis versions
- Rotis Serif
- Rotis Semi Sans
- Rotis Pro
- Rotis II Sans (2011)
- Naming convention
- Uses
- References
- External links
Rotis is a typeface developed in 1988 by Otl Aicher, a German graphic designer and typographer. In Rotis, Aicher explores an attempt at maximum legibility through a highly unified yet varied typeface family that ranges from full serif, glyphic, and sans-serif. The four basic Rotis variants are: Rotis serif (antiqua) — with full serifs Rotis semi-serif (semi-antiqua) — with hinted serifs Rotis semi-sans (semi-grotesque) — with zero serifs but with width variation Rotis sans (lineale humanist sans-serif) — with zero serifs and with minimal variation on stroke width
==Monotype Originals Rotis versions== When the Rotis fonts were reissued under the Monotype Originals label, the fonts support include support of ISO Adobe 2 character set, OpenType features. The Rotis font names are capitalized.
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