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Baltica

Baltica

by ParaType
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Complete family of 8 fonts: $149.99 USD
Baltica Font Family was designed by Isay Slutsker and published by ParaType. Baltica contains 8 styles and family package options.

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About Baltica Font Family


The Baltica typeface features slab-serif characteristics with notably thinner serifs. Its capitals are generously wide, and it has a large x-height, ensuring good legibility even at small sizes.

These qualities make Baltica particularly useful for newspaper and magazine typography, and in general for various text sizes, while its strong character shapes are ideal for striking display lines.

Baltica was designed at the Polygraphmash type design bureau in 1951-52 by Vera Chiminova, Isay Slutsker, and others, inspired by Jakob Erbar's Candida (Ludwig & Mayer, 1936).

The digital version, featuring three weights, was created at Polygraphmash by Alexander Tarbeev in 1988. Additional styles, including Small Capitals, Bold, Extra Bold, and Extra Condensed, were developed by Manvel Shmavonyan and released by Paratype in 2008.

Baltica main characteristics:

  • 2 widths: Regular and Extra Condensed

  • 8 styles in total

  • 680+ glyphs in every style

  • 14 OpenType features, including Oldstyle figures

  • Extended Latin and Cyrillic support

And if you need font files in different formats, or want to try this font, just drop us a line at [email protected], and we'll work something out.

Designers: Isay Slutsker

Publisher: ParaType

Foundry: ParaType

Original Foundry: ParaType

Design Owner: ParaType

MyFonts debut: Dec 8, 2003

Baltica

About ParaType

Paratype has been designing, developing and distributing digital fonts since the 1980’s. Our ever-growing library of hundreds of typefaces includes some of the most widely used fonts, such as Futura PT, DIN 2014, Circe, Vast, Fact and PT Sans/Serif Pro. Paratype fonts have extensive language support covering Latin, Cyrillic and Greek scripts. We also create custom fonts and provide font mastering and software services.

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