G A N Y M E D E  a  S E N T I N E L  T Y P E  designed by James Arboghast<br />
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Ganymede is a geometric linear font combining industrial & architectural themes.<br />
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Chiselled forms and a crisp finish parallel automotive styling & industrial design from the turn of the 21st century, while the straight sides resemble road signage fonts like DIN 1451, and to a lesser degree hand-lettered shop signs in the grotesk style.<br />
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Ganymede's clean, discreet forms recall modernist minimalism of the 1920s and 30s sparked by the Bauhaus; in particular the curves supplanting diagonal strokes in the X, Y and V echo Ed Benguiat's emblematic 1970s font---Bauhaus, itself a descendant of Bayer Universal.<br />
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Ganymede's structured & monumental capitals suits them to architectural & signage use. The matching small caps fonts were crafted specifically with architectural & titling use in mind. Their neutral geometry also allows them to occupy a more remote typographic terrain---of futuristic & scientific subject matter.<br />
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Ganymede 3D is a block shadow variant designed for billboards & signage, free for personal & non-profit use.<br />
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'Ganymede' is a figure from Greek mythology---a mortal youth of great beauty abducted by the gods.<br />
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F R E E W A R E  L I C E N S E<br />
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Thanks for downloading the free version of Ganymede 3D. 'Free' means you can use it for any personal or non-profit use, but you may not sell the font for your own profit. You may also distribute Ganymede 3D provided all documentation & supplimentary files in the .ZIP package remain intact & unmodified. Have fun with it!<br />
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If you want to use Ganymede 3D for a profit-making commercial job please purchase any commercial Ganymede font package from http://www.myfonts.com<br />
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Commercial Ganymede font packages come in three weights---regular, medium & bold---including a matching smallcaps font plus the commercially licensed version of Ganymede 3D, all in both TrueType & OpenType formats.<br />
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E X T E N D E D  C H A R A C T E R S  &  L I G A T U R E S<br />
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All fonts in the Ganymede series contain a full Western European character set, including extended punctuation, standard ligatures, superiors, fractions, math operators & currency symbols. The extended characters & fractions are easy to access in the OpenType edition via simple key sequences listed in the Extended Character Guide.<br />
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OpenType Features<br />
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1) Ligatures Mode: turn on this feature in the application for automatic ligature substitution as you type.  Ligatures mode also allows manual access to extended characters. Available ligatures & extended characters are listed in the Extended Character Guide.<br />
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2) Fractions Mode: turn on this feature in the application for automatic fraction character substitution, eg: 1/2 is substituted by the single 'one-half' glyph. Available fraction characters are listed in the Extended Character Guide.<br />
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To consult the Extended Character Guide, drag & drop it into your web browser or open in your favourite bitmap editor (photoshop etc). Manual key codes for the TrueType edition are also listed on this chart.<br />
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