FF Parable
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- Designer(s)
- Christopher Burke
- Foundry(ies)
- FontFont
- Release Year
- 2002
- Country of Origin
- United Kingdom
- Classification
- Serif, Transitional
- Original Format
- Digital
- Distributor(s)
- FontShop
- Tags
- ink-traps, low contrast, serif, small size, sturdy
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Parable is a versatile serifed face for serious typography. It is optimized for print in small text sizes (between 6 and 10 point). Yet, some of its features prove to be interesting characteristics at larger sizes also: such as the ‘dug-out’ shoulder junctions of h, n, m etc, and the thin midriff of lowercase g (designed to avoid filling in at small sizes).
Parable has low stroke contrast, making it robust and adaptable to many circumstances, and it has a proportionally large x-height for optimum legibility in text. The italic provides a strong, cursive contrast to the roman, and attention has been paid to giving it a distinct identity, with quite different forms for certain characters of punctuation (see margin). With small capitals, and bold & extra bold weights, Parable is equipped for all kinds of complex typography.
Parable Sans is in development.
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