Purchase methods

You have two ways to purchase Le Monde Journal PTF.

Separate packs:

Le Monde Journal PTF, 3 fonts: Regular, Italic, Bold, from €210 for a licence covering 8 worstations.
Le Monde Journal PTF b, 3 fonts: Demi, Demi Italic, Bold Italic, from €210 for a licence covering 8 worstations.

Full family to save 25%:

Le Monde Journal PTF x2, 6 fonts: Regular, Italic, Demi, Demi Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, from €315 for a licence covering 8 worstations. On this later case, you save 25% from the purchase of the two first packs.

Le Monde Journal PTF

Le Monde Journal PTF (OpenType) is the typeface on which the entire Le Monde family is based. By definition, it is intended for newspaper use & at small sizes. This family was designed in 1994 as custom font for the French newspaper Le Monde. The family is not used any more by this newspaper from November 2005. Remain few use on others publications of Le Monde.

Even though it has the same colour as Times, it appears more open. The reading flow has been made more fluent & less abrupt. The glyphs counters are bigger, as if they were “alluminating the interior.” The form, characterized by its serifs, remains embedded in our visual memory.

To accommodate any problems in newspaper printing, the bold sharply contrasts with the roman. The demi weight is better suited to titling or more careful printing. Italics accompany Le Monde Journal PTF. With a more delicate design & a distinctive rhythm, they remain noticeable when used with the romans. Le Monde Journal PTF is available in three weights, each in roman, italic.

Presented to the public in 1997, ten years after, the 2007 OpenType version is the next step in the history of the Le Monde Journal. The glyph set has surpassed the usual 250 to a size of more than 700, which allows for the composition of numerous Latin-script European languages. Along with small caps available in the three weights, 4 sets of figures are provided–lining and oldstyle–in tabular and proportional widths, depending on the version. Miniscule lowercase, figures for automated fractions, are also included, and in addition a set of dingbats for everyday use in newspaper and magazine layout. The full family is composed of more than 4600 glyphs and feature around 280 000 pairs.

Welcome to this “new Le Monde Journal” and enjoy.

OpenType

OpenType support page
—Ptf OpenType glyph set
—OpenType features
—Small Caps,
—Case forms
—Ligatures
—Special ligatures,
—Alternates,
—Stylistic Sets,
—Caps figures,
—Oldstyle figures,
—Tabular Figures,
—Fractions,
—Superscript/Subscript, Superior/Inferior figures,
—Ordinals/Superior Letters and figures,
—Ornaments.

Upgrades to OpenType Ptf version

• Upgrades from OpenType Std to OpenType Ptf

• Upgrades from Type 1 to OpenType Ptf

Nota bene

September 2009 beta test

All glyphs work here, but some doesn’t despite they are on the fonts. 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.