Compatil
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Compatil is the name of a group of typeface families which consist of the four typeface families Linotype Compatil Exquisit, Linotype Compatil Fact, Linotype Compatil Letter, and Linotype Compatil Text, each of which consists of 16 font weights.
[edit] History
Development of the Compatil typefaces took place from 1999 to 2001 at Linotype Library GmbH. There were several type designers and type experts involved in developping Compatil, namely Prof. Olaf Leu, Prof. Reinhard Haus, Silja Bilz and Erik Faulhaber. In 2005, the typeface families of Compatil were extended by true cursive typefaces.
[edit] Properties
Besides of having a good legibility, the typefaces of Compatil were designed to have numbers suited for tables of figures. The different typefaces are compatible to each other concerning the width of corresponding characters (thus Compatil). This is an important feature for designers of documents who can easily use e.g. Compatil Text for a document and - if needed by the customer - replace it by e.g. Compatil Fact without having to reformat the document. In this Compatil behaves similar as e.g. the typeface family group of Generis (typeface).
This is a major asset in using Compatil which is especially used in professional environments, e.g. in printing newspapers or financial reports.
