Ambroise Firmin Black
Buy! Details PDF1 Fonts: Black. (Standard, Ligatures, Oldstyle figures, Semi oldstyle figures, Fractions, Superiors.)
PTF Essayage (try it)
- Black
Available as family or separate weights.
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Ambroise Std
Designed by Jean François Porchez in 2001, Ambroise is a contemporary interpretation of various typefaces belonging to Didot’s late style, conceived circa 1830, including the original forms of g, y, &; and to a lesser extent, k. These characters are found in Vibert’s typefaces. Vibert was the appointed punchcutter of the Didot family during this period. It is the Black, of which sources were surest, and which was the basis for the conception of the family. In the second half of the 19th century, it was normal to find fat Didots in several widths in the catalogs of French type foundries. These same typefaces continued to be offered until the demise of the big French foundries in the 1960s.
Every variation of the typeface carries a name in homage to a member of the illustrious Didot family of type founders and printers. The condensed variant is called Ambroise Firmin. The extra-condensed is called Ambroise Francois.
Certain characters are accessible according to the platform used.
For additional info, please read this article on the Gazette.
OpenType Std
OpenType support page.
—Std OpenType glyph set
—OpenType features
—Ligatures
—Fractions,
—Ordinals/Superior Letters and figures,
—Caps figures,
—Oldstyle figures,
Alternates fonts
There are some additional alternates glyphs, which are delivered in PostScript Type 1 format for both Macintosh and Windows versions. No technical support for theses additional non-OpenType fonts is provided.
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Nota bene
The PTF Essayage (Try it) have some limitations on the rendering due to the graphic ressource it is based on, FreeType engine, different to the rendering used by your own computer. The kerning is supported and with few built in texts (reload the page…) who show ligatures and alternates when presents. On Mac OS, you can use the Glyph palette of your system to add some specials glyphs.
