Fakt Soft.
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Fakt Soft Design Information
TYPE BY Fakt Soft is designed by Thomas Thiemich and is the third member of the Fakt family, joining Fakt (normal sans serif) and Fakt Slab.
That Fakt now has a ‘soft’ option is nothing more than historically smart. Rounding the corners off a sans serif follows a long tradition, one that begins in the 1830’s when – together with shadowing – softening became one of the first effects ever applied to sans serifs. Today, softening may seem little more than a cliché, but it is compelling nonetheless and in skillful hands holds its freshness. Remember, a good soap cleans well but the best soap makes bubbles, too!
As a member of the Fakt family, Fakt Soft integrates Fakt’s innovative stylistic ‘toggle’ that enables users to switch between grotesk and geometric sans serif ‘moods’, but now with soft effects. So like normal Fakt, Fakt Soft intelligently updates tradition with today’s knowledge, craft, tools and techniques.
Fakt Soft consists of eight weights of roman and italic designs, built around three widths. The thinnest weights of Fakt are not included in Fakt Soft, for perhaps obvious reasons. Otherwise, Fakt Soft remaining weights correspond to those of the Fakt family.
The character set comprises small caps; lining, oldstyle and small cap figures (each in tabular and proportional widths); fractions; comprehensive superiors, inferiors, nominators and denominators; case sensitive punctuation sets; mathematical and monetary symbols; arrows; standard and discretionary ligatures; a set of stylistic alternates; and a complete range of accents for all Western, Central and East European languages based on the Latin script.
Fakt Soft is available in OTF CFF, TTF, WOFF, and WOFF2 formats. Legacy font formats are available on request.
The Fakt superfamily spans across multiple stylistic variants: Fakt, Fakt Slab, Fakt Soft, Fakt Stencil, Fakt Slab Stencil, and Fakt Mono. Most of Fakt's stylistic variants are available in multiple widths – please consult the product pages of each design for more information.
Supported Languages
- Afrikaans
- Albanian
- Asu
- Basque
- Bemba
- Bena
- Breton
- Catalan
- Chiga
- Colognian
- Cornish
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- Embu
- English
- Esperanto
- Estonian
- Faroese
- Filipino
- Finnish
- French
- Friulian
- Galician
- Ganda
- German
- Gusii
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Inari
- Sami
- Indonesian
- Irish
- Italian
- Jola-Fonyi
- Kabuverdianu
- Kalenjin
- Kamba
- Kikuyu
- Kinyarwanda
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Lower
- Sorbian
- Luo
- Luxembourgish
- Luyia
- Machame
- Makhuwa-Meetto
- Makonde
- Malagasy
- Maltese
- Manx
- Meru
- Morisyen
- North
- Ndebele
- Northern
- Sami
- Norwegian
- Bokmal
- Norwegian
- Nynorsk
- Nyankole
- Oromo
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Quechua
- Romanian
- Romansh
- Rombo
- Rundi
- Rwa
- Samburu
- Sango
- Sangu
- Scottish
- Gaelic
- Sena
- Serbian
- Shambala
- Shona
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Soga
- Somali
- Spanish
- Swahili
- Swedish
- Swiss
- German
- Taita
- Teso
- Turkish
- Upper
- Sorbian
- Uzbek
- Volapuk
- Vunjo
- Walser
- Welsh
- Western
- Frisian
- Zulu