Mikado Condensed and Mikado are intended to be used everywhere where a pleasant feeling should be conveyed: Games, Food, Service or Advertising. Mikado has a positive, kind of “out-of-the-box-appearance” in big sizes, but because of its straight architecture the fonts are also very legible in smaller sizes and longer texts - in print or on screen.
ULTIMATE VANILLA HERO
My dad was Superman to me
NO! NOT PLAN B — PLAN 2
Plan B implies we only have 26
DUUDE! EAT MY SHORTS
Nobody can move that fast
GO NINJA GO NINJA GO
By the power of Greyskull!
YABBA DABBA DOOOO
Today is a good day to try
PING PONG
Say “Hi” to the narrow addition to the Mikado Family: Mikado Condensed. Space Saving, powerful, easy and fun – the letterforms are innocent and easygoing on the one hand and prepared for preofessional typographic challenges on the other hand. A big character set, good spacing & kerning and screen optimised fonts make Mikado and Mikado Condensed a good choice for professional usage for games, toys or ice cream.
The thinner weights (Light to Medium) are designed to work even in long texts in small sizes. They should deliver the text ability, while the bolder the weights get more and more bouncy for headlines and big uses. As a special option the type family is also equipped with an super heavy “Ultra” weight. As fat as it can get, shouting with an extra loud voice.
Mikado Condensed can work either together with Mikado for space saving challenges or it can stand for itself. The condensed version has the same characteristics like the “normal width Mikado” but needs less space.
A font of today’s needs has to include more than just the alphabet and some punctuation. Besides a big number of accented letters, making sure that the typeface has a good language support, a font should include several features for excellent typographic work joining forces with the layout applications of the time and of course the user. Here is a selection of what this font family has to offer under the hood.
Offliners
If two letters have the nature to collide when used in combination a ligature is needed to solve this unwanted event. Ligatures are especially designed solutions for such letter combinations. This font contains a set of ligatures which are automatically substituted as soon as these letter combinations are typed in.
Wahoo! You completed 1/4 of the level.
If fractions are needed anywhere an OpenType code makes sure that if you type any numbers combined with a slash between a fraction will automatically be substituted.
Banana from Panama
Besides the standard letters a font sometimes contains several versions of a letter called alternates. You can exchange the alternate with the standard letter by selecting it through the Opentype feature panel and every letter of the stylistic set will be exchanged. Often this results in a totally different optical appearance of the typeface.
C2H4OH
A subscript is a character that is set slightly below the normal line of type. They are used in formulas, mathematical expressions, and specifications of chemical compounds and isotopes, but can have many other uses as well. These characters are not simply ordinary characters reduced in size – to keep them visually consistent with the rest of the font, they are slightly heavier than a reduced-size character would be.
Perfect! Winner2
A superscript is a character that is set slightly above the line of type. It has the same weight and size like a subscript character. They are also used in formulas, mathematical expressions and text references, but can have many other uses as well.
Mikado has an extended character set that supports more than a hundred languages. Part of the language coverage is the support for Latin and Cyrillic script.
Latin: Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Belarusian, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Chamorro, Chichewa, Comorian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino/Tagalog, Finnish, Flemish, French, Gaelic, Gagauz, German, Gikuyu, Gilbertese/Kiribati, Haitian-Creole, Hawaiian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Javanese, Kashubian, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luba/Ciluba/Kasai, Luxembourgish, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Maori, Marquesan, Moldovan/Romanian, Montenegrin, Nauruan, Ndebele, Norwegian, Oromo, Palauan/Belauan, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Romanian, Romansh, Sami, Samoan, Sango, Serbian, Sesotho, Setswana, Seychellois-Creole, Swazi, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Sorbian, Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tahitian, Tetum, Tok-Pisin, Tongan, Tsonga, Tswana, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvaluan, Uzbek, Wallisian, Walloon, Welsh, Xhosa, Zulu.
Cyrillic: Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chechen, Macedonian, Ossetic, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Uzbek.
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