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Old styles figures works very well
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Theses two examples just prove that Old style figures work well in annual reports and serious publications where you need to present financial reports. This kind of figures, with their ascenders and descenders bring style and legibility to financial reports. With OpenType features its easy today to select tabular oldstyle figures.
Tabular Figures are especially useful when setting columns of numbers, such as in financial reports. Tabular figures can be Caps, OldStyle or Semi Oldstyle in their design.
But its clear that its not a common practise and designers perhaps are afraid to set annual reports financial tables with tabular Old style figures. A financial report is not a timetable and the reading conditions are not the same. Elegance is required precisely because the image of the company is a key factor. You generally have time to read annual report seat at your desk with a good light.
Eterna, a Swiss Watchmaker, use Le Monde Livre PTF for its publications, and so on.
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Apolline work well in annual reports, specially with old style figures. Annual report for l’Oréal designed by Carré Noir.
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