Tanger Serif is designed with magazines and newspapers in mind. It is inspired by New Transitional and Egyptienne serifs from the 19th century. Tanger shares their strong and straightforward appearance in refreshed and up-to-date form. There are three widths in the family ranging from narrow to wide, each containing five weights in both roman and italic styles. All 30 fonts include expanded character set, small caps, old style figures, ligatures, fractions etc making the overall number of glyphs over 17.000. All these are easily accessed through OpenType features.

Although Tanger Serif Narrow is condensed it is designed not to look like one. Letterforms are originally made for narrow width and are not compressed from wider origin. This way narrow letters look natural. Space economical narrow styles allow size to grow in headlines and so help them to stand out from mass text.

 

 

 

 

Subtle width variations brings more attributes for text maintenance. Text flow can be controlled not only by changing size and spacing but also by changing letter width. Narrow letterforms work better in narrow columns because they allow more characters per line, thus helping justification. Wide columns tolerate wider letterforms from the same reason. Font's width variations help designers to find optimum balance between readability and space economy in typography.

The smaller the size gets the more benefits wide letterforms has. In footnotes and indexes, wide letters can significantly help readability. Wide letters may also emphasize the laid back feel of long lines and generous spacing in text.

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