PT Fonts

Typeface family

Public Type fonts

Category| Font superfamily
Classification| Humanist sans-serif
Transitional serif
Monospaced font
Designer(s)| Alexandra Korolkova with Olga Umpelova and Vladimir Yefimov
Commissioned by| Rospechat
Foundry| ParaType
Date created| 2009
Date released| 13 January 2010[1]
License| SIL Open Font License or ParaType Free Font License

The Public Type or PT Fonts are a family of free and open-source fonts released from 2009 onwards, comprising PT Sans, PT Serif and PT Mono. They were commissioned from the design agency ParaType by Rospechat, a department of the Russian Ministry of Communications, to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Peter the Great's orthography reform and to create a font family that supported all the different variations of Cyrillic script used by the minority languages of Russia, as well as the Latin alphabet.[1][2]

Primarily designed by Alexandra Korolkova, the family includes sans-serif and serif designs, both with caption styles for small-print text, and a monospaced font for use in programming. They are available under the English-language SIL Open Font License; the original font, PT Sans, was also released under ParaType's own Free Font License, and regular and bold with italics is free in Google.[3] Additional styles, such as extended, condensed and extra-bold, are sold from ParaType as PT Sans Pro and PT Serif Pro.[4][5]

## Features

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The official [6] ruble symbol in PT Sans

The fonts include Latin and Cyrillic characters and covers almost all minority languages of the Russian Federation. The slashed-Р ruble symbol (before it became official in December 2013) is included at the U+20B9…U+20CF code points.

In the most common open-source release, PT Sans and PT Serif feature regular, italic, bold and bold italic designs. They also include a caption style: this is a wider version of the typeface with a greater x-height (taller lower-case letters), designed for legibility at small font sizes and on outdoor signs. PT Sans also includes a condensed version in regular and bold without italics. In caption styles, PT Serif has a caption italic style while PT Sans has a bold version. PT Mono includes regular and bold styles.

Commercial releases include for PT Sans additional light, demi-bold, extra bold and black weights, in regular, narrow, condensed and extra-condensed styles. PT Serif gains an additional 32 styles, with narrow and extended widths, black, extra-bold and demi-bold weights. The professional releases also add text figures and small caps.

## Inclusion in operating systems

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PT Sans is included in the Fedora Linux package repository since February 2010,[7] in the Gentoo Linux repository since January 2011,[8] and in macOS since OS X Lion.[9]

## PT Astra fonts

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PT Astra Serif is visually similar to PT Serif, but metrically equivalent to Times New Roman. All fonts shown are set to the same size.

In 2016, PT Astra Sans and PT Astra Serif fonts were developed for distribution with the Russian Astra Linux operating system. Both fonts are metrically compatible with Times New Roman.[10][11][12]

In 2021, the PT Astra Fact font was developed for Astra Linux. Based on a design inspired by Frutiger,[13] it is metrically compatible with Verdana. The need for domestic replacements came about as a result of sanctions preventing fonts from Monotype Imaging from being supplied with Astra Linux.[14]

## Gallery

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* PT Sans features

* PT Serif features

* PT Serif features

* PT Serif cyrillic (top) and latin (bottom) letters difference

* The open-source weights of the PT font series.

## See also

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* Open-source Unicode typefaces
* Cantarell, the default typeface in past versions of GNOME
* Droid (typeface), the default fonts for first versions of Android
* Noto fonts, the default fonts for newer versions of Android
* Open Sans, another font based on Droid Sans
* Roboto, the default fonts for newer versions of Android
* IBM Plex, free and open-source fonts from IBM
* National Fonts, free and open-source Thai fonts
* STIX Fonts project, typefaces intended to serve the scientific and engineering community

## References

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1. ^ a b Создан шрифт, поддерживающий все языки народов России (in Russian). Vesti. 2010-01-13. Retrieved 2010-08-04.
2. ^ Разработан новый шрифт с поддержкой всех языков Российской Федерации (in Russian). Rossiyskaya Gazeta. 2010-01-14. Retrieved 2010-08-04.
3. ^ "New version of PT Sans". 2010-04-02. Archived from the original on 2010-08-19. Retrieved 2010-08-04.
4. ^ "PT Sans Pro". MyFonts. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
5. ^ "PT Serif Pro". MyFonts. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
6. ^ "Ruble symbol". 2013-12-11. Retrieved 2013-12-11.
7. ^ "Bug 556308 - Review Request: paratype-pt-sans-fonts - A pan-Cyrillic typeface". Retrieved 2010-08-04.
8. ^ "Gentoo Bug 314503 - media-fonts/pt-sans (new package)". Retrieved 2011-01-19.
9. ^ "OS X Lion default fonts".
10. ^ "ПараТайп Новости - Информация о новых гарнитурах и о различных шрифтовых событиях". www.paratype.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2018-10-04. Retrieved 2020-04-25.
11. ^ "PT Astra Sans". www.paratype.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-04-25.
12. ^ "PT Astra Serif". www.paratype.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-04-25.
13. ^ "Fact Font". www.paratype.com. Retrieved 2025-06-27.
14. ^ "Россияне создали замену знаменитому американскому шрифту, который недавно вычистили из ГОСТов". www.cnews.ru (in Russian). 2021-06-07. Retrieved 2021-10-25.

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to PT Typefaces.

* Official website
* The post in the official ParaType blog announcing PT Sans and telling the story of the project (in Russian)
* Alexandra Korolkova interview

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Free and open-source typography

Software
and libraries|

* FontForge
* Fontmatrix
* FreeType
* Ghostscript
* HarfBuzz
* Metafont
* MetaPost
* MetaType1
* Pango
* TeX
* Graphite
* ICU

Licenses|

* Apache License
* BSD licenses
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* GNU General Public License \+ GPL font exception
* GNU Lesser General Public License
* LaTeX Project Public License
* MIT License
* SIL Open Font License
* Ubuntu Font Licence

Operating system,
corporate and
professional|

* Andika
* Bitstream Charter
* Bitstream Vera
* DejaVu
* Breeze Sans
* Cascadia Code
* Cantarell
* Charis SIL
* Computer Modern
* Concrete Roman
* Courier Prime
* Doulos SIL
* Droid
* Noto
* Open Sans
* Roboto
* Fira
* Gentium
* Ghostscript fonts
* GNU FreeFont
* GNU Unifont
* Go and Go Mono
* Hershey fonts
* IBM Plex
* Liberation
* Croscore
* Literata
* Lohit
* Nanum fonts
* Nimbus Mono
* Sans
* Roman
* OCR-A
* OCR-B
* Overpass
* Selawik
* Source Code
* Source Han Sans
* Source Han Serif
* Source Sans
* Source Serif
* STIX fonts
* Tiresias
* Ubuntu, Ubuntu Titling
* Utopia
* Zilla Slab

Government
typefaces|

* National Fonts
* PT Fonts
* Railway Sans
* e-Ukraine

Other
typefaces|

* Amiri
* Antykwa Półtawskiego
* Asana-Math
* Atkinson Hyperlegible
* Cardo
* Chandas
* Comic Neue
* Cormorant
* EB Garamond
* Gentium
* IM Fell
* Inconsolata
* Iosevka
* Jomolhari
* Junicode
* Kochi
* Lato
* Linux Libertine
* Montserrat
* M+
* News Cycle
* Open Baskerville
* OpenDyslexic
* Squarish Sans CT
* Theano Didot
* WenQuanYi
* XITS

Groups and
people|

* Donald Knuth
* Ray Larabie
* Raph Levien
* Behdad Esfahbod
* Font Awesome
* Greek Font Society
* Font Library
* Google Fonts
* SIL International

Free and open-source software portal

* Open-source Unicode typefaces
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* List of free software Unicode typefaces

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Typography

Page|

* Canons of page construction
* Column
* Even working
* Margin
* Page numbering
* Paper size
* Pagination
* Pull quote
* Recto and verso
* Intentionally blank page

Paragraph|

* Alignment
* Leading
* Line length
* River
* Runaround
* Widows and orphans
* runt

Character|

| Typeface anatomy|

* Counter
* Diacritics
* Dingbat
* Glyph
* Ink trap
* Ligature
* Rotation
* Subscript and superscript
* Swash
* Text figures
* Tittle

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Capitalization|

* All caps
* Camel case
* Initial
* Letter case
* Small caps
* Snake case
* Title case

Visual distinction|

* Blackboard bold
* Bold
* Color printing
* Italics
* Oblique
* Underline
* Whitespace

Horizontal aspects|

* Figure space
* Kerning
* Letter spacing
* Pitch
* Sentence spacing
* Thin space
* Word spacing

Vertical aspects|

* Ascender
* Baseline
* Body height
* Cap height
* Descender
* Mean line
* Overshoot
* x-height

Typeface
classifications|

| Roman type|

* Serif
* Antiqua
* Didone
* slab serif
* Sans-serif

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Blackletter type|

* Fraktur
* Rotunda
* Schwabacher

Gaelic type|

* Insular
* Uncial

Specialist|

* Record type
* Display typeface
* script
* fat face
* reverse-contrast

Punctuation (List)|

* Bullet
* Dash
* Hanging punctuation
* Hyphen
* minus sign
* Interpunct
* Space
* Vertical bar

Typesetting|

* Etaoin shrdlu
* Font
* computer
* monospaced
* Font catalog
* For position only
* Letterpress
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* Microprinting
* Microtypography
* Movable type
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* Punchcutting
* Reversing type
* Sort
* Type color
* Type design
* Typeface
* list

Typographic units|

* Agate
* Cicero
* Em
* En
* Metric units
* Pica
* Point
* traditional point-size names
* Twip

Digital typography|

* Character encoding
* Hinting
* Text shaping
* Rasterization
* Typographic features
* Web typography
* Bézier curves
* Desktop publishing

Typography in other
writing systems|

* Arabic
* Cyrillic
* PT Fonts
* East Asian
* Thai
* National Fonts

Related articles|

* Penmanship
* Handwriting
* Handwriting script
* Calligraphy
* Style guide
* Type design
* Type foundry
* History of Western typography
* Intellectual property protection of typefaces
* Technical lettering
* Vox-ATypI classification

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* Punctuation and other typographic symbols

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macOS typefaces

Latin, Greek, Cyrillic|

| Serif|

* Academy Engraved
* American Typewriter
* Athelas
* Baskerville MT
* Big Caslon
* Bodoni 72
* Canela
* Cochin
* Charter
* Didot
* Domaine
* Georgia
* Hoefler Text
* Iowan Old Style
* Marion
* New York
* Produkt
* Publico
* STIX Fonts
* Superclarendon
* Palatino
* PT Serif
* Rockwell
* Times, Times New Roman

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Sans-serif|

* Adelle Sans
* Arial, Arial Rounded, Arial Unicode MS
* Avenir, Avenir Next
* DIN
* Druk
* Euphemia UCAS
* Founders Grotesk
* Futura
* Geneva
* Gill Sans
* Graphik
* Helvetica, Neue Helvetica
* Impact
* Lucida Grande
* Microsoft Sans Serif
* Myriad Arabic
* Noto Sans
* October
* PT Sans
* Optima
* Phosphate
* Proxima Nova
* San Francisco
* Seravek
* Skia
* Tahoma
* Trebuchet MS
* Verdana

Monospaced|

* Andalé Mono
* Apple Braille
* Courier, Courier New
* Menlo
* Monaco
* PT Mono
* SF Mono
* Spot Mono

Script / Display|

* Apple Chancery
* Bradley Hand Bold
* Brush Script MT
* Chalkboard
* Chalkduster
* Comic Sans
* Copperplate
* Herculanum
* Luminari
* Marker Felt
* Noteworthy
* Pilgiche
* Papyrus
* Quotes
* Sauber Script
* Savoye LET
* SignPainter
* Snell Roundhand
* Trattatello
* Zapfino

Non-alphabetic|

* Apple Color Emoji
* Apple Symbols
* Symbol
* Webdings
* Wingdings
* Zapf Dingbats

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