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Nimbus Sans L

by URW Type Foundry
Individual Styles from $89.99 USD
Complete family of 17 fonts: $627.99 USD
Nimbus Sans L Font Family was designed by URW Design Staff and published by URW Type Foundry. Nimbus Sans L contains 18 styles family package options.

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    The first versions of Nimbus Sans have been designed and digitized in the 1980s for the URW SIGNUS sign-making system. Highest precision of all characters (1/100 mm accuracy) as well as spacing and kerning were required because the fonts should be cut in any size in vinyl or other material used for sign-making. During this period three size ranges were created for text (T), the display (D) and poster (P) for small, medium and very large font sizes. In addition, we produced a so-called L-version that was compatible to Adobe’s PostScript version of Helvetica. Nimbus was also the product name of a URW-proprietary renderer for high quality and fast rasterization of outline fonts, a software provided to the developers of PostScript clone RIPs (Hyphen, Harlequin, etc.) back then.

    Designers: URW Design Staff

    Publisher: URW Type Foundry

    Foundry: URW Type Foundry

    Design Owner: URW Type Foundry

    MyFonts debut: Nov 11, 2021

    Nimbus Sans L

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    URW Type Foundry GmbH is a German company with a long and rich history in type design and engineering. As the direct successor of digital type pioneer URW GmbH, it continues to design and develop first class typefaces and custom projects. URW Type Foundry GmbH is renowned for a comprehensive library, a specialization in global font technology, and its overall role in type development.

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