Explanation
OVERVIEW:Novecento Slab is the slab serif companion of Novecento Sans, an uppercase + smallcaps font family inspired on european typographic tendencies between the second half of 19th century and first half of the 20th.As the excellent French typographer Xavier Dupr said it seems to have been cast in concrete. Despite its blocky look, Novecento Slabs lettershapes are optically corrected and balanced.This font face is designed to be used mostly for headlines, visual identities or short sentences, both in big and small sizes.Novecento Slab family was spaced and kerned with love and patience; each font has between 750 and 950 group kerning pairs. This font is available for licensing in opentype and webfont format, as well as for mobile apps, ebooks and for software embedding.OPENTYPE FEATURES:AALTAccesses All Alternate glyphs from the Glyphs panels in Adobe Illustrator or Indesign.CASESets All-Caps to activate case sensitive forms: transform lowercase letters, figures and some extra signs to Uppercase; vertically aligns math symbols and punctuation.DNOM & NUMRTransforms 0 to 9 figures into numerators (aligned to cap height) and denominators (aligned to baseline).FRACCustom fractions generation feature.SUPSTransforms 0 to 9 figures into superiors.LOCLRomanian, Moldavian and Polish advanced diacritics support; automatic Catalan punt volant; Dutch localization for accented ij; localization for Turkish i (works also for Kazakh, Tatar, Crimean Tatar, Azeri. Just select your text language to activate the localized accents)CALTdetects German in an uppercase string and substitute it with its uppercase version/ SS01 / SALTAlternate Q letter shape for ultra narrow line heights.Implemented both as Stylistic Set n1 (ss01) and Stylistic Alternate (salt) to maximize compatibility between applications.SS02 / SALTAlternate N letter shape. Implemented both as Stylistic Set n2 (ss02) and Stylistic Alternate (salt) to maximize compatibility between applications.SS03 / SALTAlternate I letter shape. Implemented both as Stylistic Set n3 (ss03) and Stylistic Alternate (salt) to maximize compatibility between applications.SS04 / SALTAlternate J letter shape. Implemented both as Stylistic Set n4 (ss04) and Stylistic Alternate (salt) to maximize compatibility between applications.SS05 / SALTAlternate Y letter shape. Implemented both as Stylistic Set n5 (ss05) and Stylistic Alternate (salt) to maximize compatibility between applications.LNUM/ONUMLining / oldstyle figures; LNUM transforms numbers and monetary symbols in Uppercase; ONUM do the opposite (default figures are ONUM).TNUM / PNUMTabular/ proportional figures. Figures (numbers, monetary and math symbols) of same width always align, in spite of their weight.ZERO / SALTSlashed zero alternate glyph. Works with tabular and proportional figures, numerators, denominators and superiors. Implemented both as Zero as Salt to maximize compatibility between applications.
