Hermecito™ is a text type of optimum legibility, weight, colour and letterfit. Throughout the design process traditional principles of design of text letters were closely observed. When designs for the 9- to 12-pt roman and italic forms with Cyrillic and Greek letters were completed, designs of a ‘Nonpareil’ for smaller texts (5 to 8 pt) were made and display forms – ‘Tertia’ for 14-pt and larger, titling capitals and an ultrabold – were added. The high-resolution specimens (pdf for US Letter and A4) contain sample texts. Some notable features of the 46-font series are:

• Baltic and Eastern European glyphs; accents fitted closely to capitals to facilitate closely line-spaced settings

• Open counters, sharpness of line, close-fitting punctuation

• Slightly shortened capitals for a more comfortable setting of German

• Ligatures and logotypes for fb ff ffi ffl fh fi fj fk fl ft ij tz ch ck

• Long-s and ligatures

• Piece- and composite-fractions font

• Roman and italic superiors and inferiors fonts containing maths symbols and Greek lowercase

• IPA Phonetics font

• Long descenders alternative fonts

• Tabular figures alternative fonts (all numerals of equal width)

• Small capitals for Cyrillic and Greek

In the Hermecito Special fonts:

• ‘Polytonic’ Greek (upright, small capitals and inclined)

• Vietnamese (roman, small caps and italic)

• Letters for transliteration

• Extensive range of Unicode mathematics operators and symbols (2200-22FF), arrows, astronomical, botanical, monetary signs, scansion marks, etc.

• Glyphs for simple chemical structural drawings