Aaux Next
DESIGNER
Neil Summerour
RELEASED
2009
WEIGHTS/STYLES
Hairline, Hairline Italic, Thin, Thin Italic, Light, Light Italic, Regular, Regular Italic, Medium, Medium Italic, SemiBold, SemiBold Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Black, Black Italic, Ultra, Ultra Italic
FORMAT OPTIONS
OpenType (OTF)
TrueType (TTF)
LOCALIZATION
Extended Latin
Purchase
WEBFONT
MyFonts
design inspiration
When the original Aaux was introduced in 2002, I intended to go back and expand the family to offer more versatility. Years went by before I was willing to pick it up again and invest the proper time into building a viable and useful recut. Just putting a new designation and tweaking a few glyphs here and there would not do the designer or the typeface justice; instead, I chose to redraw each glyph’s skeleton from scratch for the four main subsets of the super family along with their italics. Each glyph across the super family is ‘connected at the hip’ with each style—each character carries the no frills, simple architecture that endeared so many users to it.

design information
The new recut expands the family to an enormous 72 typefaces! The original has spawned Compressed, Condensed and Wide subsets—all with corresponding weights—for complete flexibility. Additionally, all of the original weight variants have all been incorporated within the OpenType shell: Small Caps and Old Style Figures are there along with new tabular figures, numerators and denominators, expanded f-ligatures and a complete Central European character set.
Weight Progression of the 9 Principle Weights: Compressed, Condensed, Standard, Wide


  Ligatures
(liga)

  Small Capitals
(smcp)

  Old Style Numerals
(onum)

  Tabular Lining Figures
Basic Character Set
Small Caps
Numerals, Currency, Math
Ligatures & Discretionary Ligatures
Diacritics
Symbols
  Latin-1 Support
Albanian, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Finnish, Flemish, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Malay, Norwegian, Portuguese, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog,

Latin Extended-A Support
Afrikaans, Basque, Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Esperanto, Estonian, Fijian, French, Frisian, Greenlandic, Hawaiian, Hungarian, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Māori, Polish, Provençal, Rhaeto-Romanic, Romanian, Moldavian, Romany, Sámi, Samoan, Slovak, Slovenian, Sorbian, Turkish, Welsh

Supported ISO codepages
8859-1 Latin 1 (West European)
8859-2 Latin 2 (Central European)
8859-3 Latin 3 (South European)
8859-4 Latin 4 (Baltic)
8859-9 Latin 5 (Turkish) 8859-10 Latin 6 (Scandinavian)
8859-13 Latin 7 (Baltic 2) 8859-15 Latin 9
8859-16 Latin 10
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