Typefaces developed to meet demand for letters that can be used to produce pupil material for reading as well as handwriting. Together these typefaces provide a valuable resource for special needs teachers. Teachers can print desk strips, charts of letter families and alphabet friezes, as well as consistent material across the curriculum. The exit strokes link words together visually, and in handwriting they lead to spontaneous joins along the baseline leading logically to a joined-up hand. Upright letters with extended ascenders and descenders are ideal on screen. The standard versions include revised lining figures that are intentionally designed to be a little smaller than capitals.Īn upright typeface family developed to meet the demand for letters to produce pupil material for handwriting as well as for reading. Most weights also have small caps, Old style Figures, alternates (swashes, ligatures, etc) and there is one ornament font with many lovely fleurons. The new family is large and versatile - with Roman and italic in 6 weights from regular to black. Naturally Porchez based Sabon Next on this second version and also referred to original Garamond models, carefully improving the proportions of the existing digital Sabon while matching its alignments. Because the Stempel version does not have the constraints necessary for types intended for machine composition, it seems closer to a pure interpretation of its Garamond ancestor. The first was designed for use on Linotype and Monotype machines, and the second for Stempel hand composition. The design of Sabon® Next by Jean François Porchez, a revival of a revival, was a double challenge: to try to discern Jan Tschichold´s own schema for the original Sabon, and to interpret the complexity of a design originally made in two versions for different typecasting systems.