Kaori is perfect for title, logo, product packaging, branding, magazine, social media, wedding, or just used for quotes.

www.Stat-Type.com Complementary Type Family Stat Text Pro Stat Display Pro is an information design sans serif type family legible in circumstances of low visibility. Its large character set with multiple weights is defined by optimal size ratio, distinctive letter shapes, wide aperture and balanced counters. Stat Display Pro remains legible in unfavorable circumstances of distance, size, movement and similar. It contains nearly 700 glyphs, including diacritics, ligatures, small caps, old–style figures, arrows and more. This enables it to achieve wide language support. It consists of four main (Light, Regular, Medium, Bold) and four secondary, negative weights (Light Negative, Regular Negative, Medium Negative, Bold Negative) which are accompanied by their corresponding obliques. Stat Display Pro type family has higher than average x height (72% of cap height) which is accompanied by matching ascender and descender size ratios. With its distinctive letter shape detail it minimizes the possibility of letter shape confusion, while optimizing legibility with wide aperture and balanced counters. Its main intended use is information design, where it, with its characteristics, meets the requirements of wayfinding, infographics, table setting and much, much more. The development of the type family was based on research in legibility to achieve highly legible letter shapes, while not diminishing their visual character. A detailed description of Stat Pro type family is available at Stat-Type.com where a DEMO font can be downloaded.

Volta is a robust typeface from the 1950s. A revisit to styles that were en vogue at the turn of the century, Bauer type foundry designers Walter Baum and Konrad Bauer designed this type family in1955. The form of Volta's letters are similar to those in New Transitional Serif typefaces, like Cheltenham and Century. Developed after the Didone (i.e., Bodoni) style types, New Transitional Serifs speak more to the zeitgeist of the late 19th Cntury, and were typographic adaptations to it's newer technologies. Already in the period of mass production, typographers and printers at the dawn of the 20th Century had to cope with larger print runs on cheaper materials. The robust letterforms of New Transitional Serifs were designed to compensate for this, but they were also ingenious little inventions in their own right. Form the beginning, the new, peculiar forms of New Transitional Serif letters were adopted for use by advertisers. Their robustness also allowed them to be used in virtually all sizes. Volta was designed especially with advertising display usage in mind. The x-height of Volta's letters is higher than average for serif faces. It is recommended that Volta be used exclusively for shorter tracks of text, above 12 point. Headlines look dashing set in Volta. Four different font styles are available for the Volta typeface: Regular, Medium, Medium Italic, and Bold."

The Deberny typeface is an interpretation–carrying a contemporary imprint–of a typographic style which appeared and spread at the end of the 19th century until the begining of the 20th. These typefaces were named Italian, Venetian, Veronese and were classified in the Hellenic category, a spontaneous typographic movement caracterized by triangular and heavy serifs. They found their inspiration among numerous references, from incised to slab serif typefaces and their extreme expressions in wood type letterforms. The Deberny font family is made of 26 styles in 3 complementary sets of style, offering a wide palette of visual resonance: • Deberny Line is ideally suited for editorial, branding, posters and billboards. It has sharp contrast between thick and thin strokes. Heavy horizontal strokes are not frequent in roman letters, but here they fit naturally with the italic letters. • Deberny Open is a stylish outline declination of Deberny Line Medium and Medium Italic. • Deberny Text is an adaptation of Deberny Line made for broader use. Its shapes are less contrasted, which makes it perfectly legible for print or screen reading in small size text. Old style figures and small caps complete Deberny Text in all its 8 styles. The Deberny typeface family supports Latin-based languages and will be available soon in Cyrillic and Greek. Deberny Narrow will be released this year in all its 26 styles.

Fishmonger originated from a commission of two fonts for the corporate identity of a fishmonger shop. When sketching the elementary principles for the lettering, the idea for a modern, extensive font family with a large number of styles was born. The first step consisted of defining the range of widths and weights. Then the master design Medium Regular was completed. The next step was adjusting the Extra Condensed Thin, the Extra Condensed Bold, The Extra Extended Thin and the Extra Extended Bold weights, as they are the vertices of an imaginary square map of the face. This meant that, in order to achieve a harmonious result, the x and y axis needed to be defined. From top to bottom, from the widest to the most condensed cut, the proportions are linear. However, from light to black, the line curves gently, allowing lesser difference between the light cuts, and a dramatic one between the heavier cuts. To ensure the original parameters were respected each position on the vertex was checked against the Medium Regular. After sorting out the ideal set-up, the remaining characters of each of the weights were drawn, and the remaining cuts were interpolated according to the principles above. Fishmonger is a functional, clean design, free of any buoyant, ornamental shapes, almost minimalist. Maybe this is what lends the type family its unique appearance.

The Core Sans G Family is a part of the Core Sans Series, such as Core Sans N SC, Core Sans N, Core Sans NR, and Core Sans M. Core Sans G is constructed of straight, circular or square shapes. These geometric shapes are inspired by classic geometric sans (Futura, Avenir, Avant Garde etc.). Every stem is a rectangle or a straight line and every letter, lowercase or uppercase, seems to be in perfect geometric form and even weighted. The small x-height makes readability clean and clear. Core Sans G can be used equally well in headings or in body copy. The Core Sans G Family consists of 9 weights (Thin, Extra Light, Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, Extra Bold, Heavy, Black), 3 for rounded (Medium, Bold, Extra Bold) with matching Italics. It also includes 4 effects fonts (Outline, Neon, Shadow, Dimensional), Alternate Characters (a,g,t) and a bunch of ligatures. The Core Sans G provides a wide range of character sets to support (Cyrillic, Central and Eastern European characters) and advanced typographical support with features such as proportional Figures, tabular Figures, numerators, denominators, superscript, scientific Inferiors, subscript, fractions, standard ligatures, discretionary ligatures and stylistic alternates. Core Sans G is an ideal font family for use in magazines, web pages, screens, displays, and so on.

Cordon is a textured font that gives a feel of vintage, classic, old and handmade. Already PUA Encoded, this font is perfect for people looking for vintage aesthetic and suitable for any graphic designs such as branding materials, t-shirts, print, business cards, logos, posters, photography, quotes, and more. Cordon has support for 23 languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish and Zulu.

Hello everyone, here is a font that comes with a beautiful impression and is equipped with alternative characters that can be processed at will. You can apply this font in various print and digital media such as logos, wedding invitations, craft products, promotions on social media and many more. Lots. For reference, see preview. Features: -Uppercase -Lowercase -Numeral -Punctuation -Multilingual -Alternate -Ligature -Swash

Agustrush a work that is purely a result of handwriting, has a natural characteristic. this is perfect for invitations, signatures, blogs, social media, business cards, product brands. Agustrush a work that is purely handwritten, has its own characteristics with the style of monoline It is perfect for invitations, signatures, blogs, social media, business cards, product brands, also equipped with 52 ligature.

Hello everyone, this is a handwritten font that comes with a beautiful, elegant and very beautiful impression, especially with some very charming ligatures. You can apply this font in various print and digital media such as logos, wedding invitations, craft products, promotions on social media, business cards and much more. For reference, see preview. Features: -Uppercase -Lowercase -Numeral -Punctuation -Multilingual -Ligature

Hello, This is Metro Beardy! Metro Beardy is a retro bold font that comes from hand scratches to get natural writing. With the main style of the hand-lettering display font. Metro Beardy is very suitable for use in various media such as; packaging, logos, labels, posters, shirt designs, wisdom quotes, bulletins, typography, and many other media, especially with retro or vintage looks.

Allow me to introduce the Lovely Buttering script, which combines elements of informal, romantic, sweet, beautiful design, and hand-drawn typography design elements. Lovely Buttering script has 1000+ glyphs and 500+ alternative characters, including various language support. You can use this font for your work very easily because there are many features in it. Contains a complete set of upper and lower case letters, punctuation, numbers, and multilingual support. This font also includes several ligatures, alternative stylistic sets for those of you who have software that can work OpenType (Corel Draw / Photoshop / Illustrator / InDesign). Need help? If you need help or advice, please contact me through e-mail. Thank you for your purchase!

Bartdeng is a luxury Handwritten Font with a new stylish, a perfection style of the letters you want to use, modern handwriting with many alternatives. Now this is an OpenType! It's smart and in line with your wishes! You are welcome to use it, suitable for various purposes: logo, signatures, corporate symbol, wedding invitation, title, creative, t-shirt, business card, letterhead, nameplate, headings, label, poster, news, badge, letterhead, cutting, hot stamping, quotation, etc. Bartdeng Features 535 glyphs and alternative characters. Includes the initial letter to terminal, alternative, ligature and multiple language support. Programs that support OpenType features such as Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign, Corel Draw, and Microsoft Office.

Introducing Monteya - a modern serif with vintage charm, fashion look and retro yet modern style. Work fast using integrated features. Just add PLUS (+) after any letter and get alternate instantly. This feature works on most applications (Canva, Templett, Corjl and others) Monteya Regular: Opentype Serif font with clean shapes and accurate kerning. It includes ligatures and alternates with total amount 570 PUA encoded glyphs. Monteya Draft: Modern Serif with chunky imperfect edges and shabby appearance. This font is a strict copy of everything from regular version including glyphs names, kerning and ligatures, so you are worry-free to change style on the go. Alternates appears automatically when you type plus after any letter or even ligature.

Introducing Neufreit, the younger brother of Creo but softer and finer proportion with sharper apex & vertex. It comes in 9 weights with matching italic styles, starting from ExtraLight to Heavy as the heaviest weight. This family is equipped with useful OpenType features such as Ordinals, Superiors, Stylistic Sets, Tabular Figures, Standard Ligatures, Fractions, Numerators & Denominators. Each font has 500+ glyphs which covers Western & Eastern Europe, and other Latin based languages – over 200 languages supported! Neufreit will be suitable for many creative projects. This distinctive typeface that will be perfect for logos, packaging, greeting cards, presentations, headlines, lettering, posters, branding, quotes, titles, magazines, headings, web layouts, mobile applications, art quotes, advertising, invitations, packaging design, books, book title, and more.

SK Ilke Mono is a "mono geometric sans" font family. Designed by Salih Kızılkaya in 2021, this font is designed for the needs of designers and software developers. Character ranges and proportions of characters have been specially designed so that you can use it comfortably in any area you want to use mono font. SK Ilke offers full support for the Latin alphabet and includes many typographic elements that you will need in your designs. It contains 22 different fonts and 12,760 glyphs in total. Each font of this font family contains 580 glyphs. In this way, it offers you all the typographic elements you will need in your designs and aims to meet all your design needs.

Hargalia is a beautiful cursive display typeface. Inspired by classic cursive calligraphy from Carolingian Renaissance era (about 8th century) which in that era, the alphabet letterform was perfected for the first time with many curvy strokes with a flat brush. Hargalia is designed with penmanship and carefully digitized with many swashes included. Hargalia is designed for headlines and short body texts. The natural strokes with calligraphic feel that highly recommended for fashion, branding, magazine, editorial, logotype, packaging, historical quotes, and more. This font is PUA Encoded with 430 glyphs in total! Worth every penny! Features included: Uppercase Lowercase Numbers Symbols Punctuation Stylistic alternates Contextual alternates Swashes Ligatures Stylistic set 001 - 003 Best regards, Ramz.

Silverland is a revival of an old type font from the Bruce Type Foundry of New York, the original font from 1874 included uppercase only plus 22 end caps. This 21st. century version has been expanded to include many more decorative end caps plus new lowercase, small caps, italic, italic small caps, swash, swash small caps and gothic version. Approximately six months of painstaking work has gone into making this font family over the last 22 months. The OpenType versions of Silverland include between 230 and 370 kerning pairs each setup as auto ligature replacements, you will need an application such Adobe CS products in order to take advantage of this OpenType feature.

Silverland is a revival of an old type font from the Bruce Type Foundry of New York, the original font from 1874 included uppercase only plus 22 end caps. This 21st. century version has been expanded to include many more decorative end caps plus new lowercase, small caps, italic, italic small caps, swash, swash small caps and gothic version. Approximately six months of painstaking work has gone into making this font family over the last twenty two months. The OpenType versions of Silverland include between 230 and 370 kerning pairs each setup as auto ligature replacements, you will need an application such Adobe CS products in order to take advantage of this OpenType feature.

Torus Variations are an addition to the original monoline Torus family from 2017. The four new styles are Biline, Outline, Inline and Notched. The Torus family has been designed specifically for use in logo design, headlines and for branding purposes. While the default character sets are distinctive in their own right, graphic designers will love playing with the numerous alternate glyphs that will help them create unique wordmarks and logo designs. Torus’ simplistic forms and soft terminals make this a lovely, warm typeface perfect for a multitude of typographic applications. Key features: • 4 styles • 6 weights • 49 Alternates (via 2 Stylistic Sets) • Full European character set (Latin only) • 550+ glyphs per font.

Inspired by the vintage brush typography, we proudly present Hadnich. the versatile script font. Carefully designed with the taste of old school sign painting which has the neat letterforms, attractive move and combined in modern form. Complete your font library with this cool brush font. Works perfectly for logo, signage, apparel, labels, poster, and many more! Make sure you get more variants of typographic design with a ton of alternates characters that you can access easily! There are stylistic sets 01-14, ligatures, swashes also accented characters, packed in a total of 350++ glyphs! Worth every penny. Uppercase Lowercase Numbers & symbols Stylistic sets 01-14 Ligatures Multilingual characters Thank you for watching. Keep it real!

Ronde Script (Ronde meaning "A kind of script in which the heavy strokes are nearly upright, giving the characters when taken together a round look.") is based on the original design named Parisian Ronde released in 1878 by the Chappelle Foundry in Paris. Other versions of this script include Inland French Script, French Script, French Plate, and Typo Upright. Different type foundries tied to the releases of this design include Mayeur (Paris), Stephenson Blake (London), Bernhardt Brothers & Spindler (Chicago), and ATF (Elizabeth, NJ). This style of script has been a very popular choice in designing wedding invitations and so many other formal announcements for over 130 years. Its very readable, formal and elegant with an antique or retro feel.

As the name suggests, Goldie is an old-style serif typeface designed for striking headlines. Goldie has strong rounded serifs and a soft touch to it. It suits well to movie titles, novel covers, posters and so on, wherever you need a certain classic feeling and the font itself to act as an illustration. Goldie Old Style is easy to use to create nice strong headlines with character. In addition it’s equipped with 230 interlocking Discretionary Ligatures, Swash Alternates and a selection of common accented characters that are scaled down, so that they match the height of the rest of the font with the accent marks. These smaller accented characters are set in uppercase Stylistic Alternates.

Novecento Slab Rough adds a letterpress / analog effect to its Slab Serif parent. Each letter has a different pattern and gives you a truly realistic effect. Even accented variants of any base character are all different. This font has also a built-in feature that automatically displays a texture variant for the 2nd occurrence of a letter or a number when they appear close one to each other. For instance: AA OO TT ÜÜ. But also: AOA NON TXT etc. And don't forget alternate glyphs design such as N I J Q Y and all other features present in the Novecento mega family: 32 styles, 76 latin languages supported, 590 glyphs and 16 stylistic opentype features for advanced typography.

Cygnito Mono is the first modular font from ATK Studio. Inspired by modernism and industrial graphic design. This is a solid industrial monospaced font with octagon angles (±45°) and octagon structure. Determine the grid and create a complete set of cohesive characters (A-Z) and multi-language characters (latin based) in either lowercase or uppercase, with consideration for scale, proportion, and balance between the letterform. Contains 506 glyphs and support for ±130 languages. Develop a visual presentation that complements the style and personality of the new typeface. Brings a fresh sensitivity to boring old existing monospaced fonts. Perfect for any purposes such as typographic design, coding, tabular layout, sign, sticker, logos, poster design, magazine, website, and others.

RAILHAM is a slab typeface with more than 330 glyphs including uppercase, lowercase, numbers, small caps, accents, punctuation, currencies, etc. Inspired by the tracks of a railroad, with stems that narrow at the top, Railham typeface, like a train looks to the future without forgetting the fundamentals of a long road, detaining in the detail of every element to form a strong, fast and versatile family. Retaking and uniting essential concepts of typography, rounded serifs with especially wide base, forms and counterblocks that complement together, RailHam typeface neatly adapts to any topic, besides being practical and readily legible in small and large formats, joining a select list of modern slab serif fonts.

Say Hello to Quadrian, a modern calligraphy font. Carefully designed with consistent strokes, this beautiful script font offers a minimalist, luxurious and classy feel. Quadrian is inspired by classical calligraphy. This font is perfect for anything that needs an elegant, beautiful, feminine, and dramatic look. You can apply this font to weddings, invitations, logotypes, romantic quotes, labels, and branding. Quadrian consists of a full set of characters and is equipped with hundreds of alternative characters that you can use to enhance your designs. A total of 500+ glyphs that you can mix and match and multilingual support! What you'll get : Uppercase Lowercase Numbers & punctuations Stylistic alternates Stylistic set 01 - 20 With Love, Arterfak Project

Ferryman is a Blackletter typeface for the contemporary reader. Unfamiliar Blackletter characters have been replaced with adapted common Latin characters (Antiqua) or with letters from other historical scripts that are more legible to a modern audience. Ferryman is the antidote to the overused geometric and neogrotesk styles. An expressive display typeface with a strong character, it is perfectly suited for counterculture projects and progressive concepts e.g. in visual art, indie music, and alternative lifestyles. With nine weights and corresponding italics Ferryman offers a wide range of creative possibilities. Each style offers 590 glyphs supporting all Western-, Eastern- and Central-European languages and comes with four sets of numbers and various currency symbols.

Kontora is elegant, universal and laconic geometric sans. Kontora has minimal amount of decor, mostly modern proportions and letterforms, but at the same time shows a touch of retro constructivist aesthetics. This version of Kontora sans comes in 9 weights, it has 590 glyphs, therefore it supports Latin Extended A (Western and Central European) and Cyrillic (Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian) languages. It has basic ligatures and two sets of stylistic alternates. Kontora is perfect for clean and minimalistic design, as well as it can be a breath of fresh air to a fully loaded complex layout. Use it for bold typography, headlines, posters, branding, packaging, it looks great in all caps and vivifies design as a text font.

This is of Novecento Sans, a font family inspired by European typographic trends between the second half of 19th century and first half of the 20th. It looks rational and geometric. However, it is optically corrected and balanced. NEWS: you can add a layered effect with Novecento Carved as top layer. This font face is designed to be used mostly for headlines, visual identities or short sentences, both in big and small sizes. Lighter faces provide a more contemporary and design look and feel, while the bolder ones definitely look retro. Novecento Sans family comes in 32 styles, speaks 76 latin based languages, has 590 glyphs and 16 stylistic opentype features for advanced typography.

MODAR means Modern and Artistic. A good font must be enduring and of high quality. This typeface is beautiful and noble, like an elegant sculpture, both historical and modern. This font is great for fashion, magazines, premium services, publishing, and also great for premium brands. MODAR is paired with a sans-serif typeface for a simple yet elegant visual effect. The font is very straight and has high-quality details, combining Eastern and Western aesthetics in one typeface. Designers borrowed classic fonts such as Didot and Canela in this font, combined with the elegant style of personal advocacy, to create 350 characters. I hope this font will help your brand be more visible.

Based on examples of common medieval Gothic typefaces, High German has lots of character, giving an immediate impression of the densely packed pages of the 'traditional' backward looking printers of the day.

Medieval (Latinised) Futhark After the arrival of Christianity in Scandinavia, the Runic alphabet was Latinised and was used occasionally, mainly for decoration, until 1850. This version is the latin runic script version.

For all your royal invitations. The Castles & Shields Series contains over 85 unique and decorative characters depicting numbers and alphabets in castle and shield silhouettes to give your documents a medieval feel.

Presenting the 🗯️💬The Browood Layered Comic Font💬🗯️ by alitdesign. The Browood Layered Comic Font is inspired by the style of letters in comics that have less serious and fun characters. The lettering of the Browood Layered Comic Font is a sans serif with display font characters which gives a fun and design impression for children. The Browood Layered Comic Font has 3 layered font. The Brootahh font is perfect for creating designs with non-serious concepts, designs for children, book headers, and of course for text on comics. The Browood Layered Comic Font also gets a bonus character of 230 Comic-themed illustrations that make creating designs even easier. Simply by downloading The Browood Layered Comic Font creating a Comic and non formal themed design is very quick and easy. The Browood Layered Comic Font is perfect for magazine cover designs, brochures, flyers. Instagram ads, Canva Design and so on with comic, non-serious, pop art, game mobile and fun design. Besides that this font is very easy to use both in design and non-design programs because everything changes and glyphs are supported by Unicode (PUA). The Browood Layered Comic Font contains 544 + 230 bonus glyphs with many unique and interesting alternative options. Language Support : Latin, Basic, Western European, Central European, South European,Vietnamese. In order to use the beautiful swashes, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Indesign and Corel Draw. but if your software doesn't have Glyphs panel, you can install additional swashes font files.

A Geometric Angular Sans & Italic with Pizazz The Huerto Family began as a digitization of a film typeface from LetterGraphics known simply as "Horino Bold". The original specimen included standard Capitals and Lowercase, Numerals and limited punctuation. We've fleshed out the original style and added a true italic with swash alternates to the family. Where the original had a feeling of rugged permanence to it, the italic with swashes adds a fleeting dynamic appeal. Opentype features include: - Full set of Inferiors and Superiors for limitless fractions. - A small collection of Standard Ligatures. - A small set of Stylistic Alternates - Swash Capitals for the Italic style only. Approx. 423 Character Glyph Set: Each style of Huerto comes with a glyphset that includes standard & punctuation, international language support, and additional features. Huerto Italic has a 565 character glyphset due to additional swash and alternates.

While sketching for a music project logo, Donald DBXL Beekman looked at several wood type alphabets as a starting poing. One of these was No.120, patented in 1880 by William Hamilton Page. With its distinct diagonally cut serifs and round shapes cut off at top and bottom, it bore just the right feel for the project. DBXL digitized the alphabet, adding all characters needed for a full set. During this process all shapes were widened, tweaked and streamlined to enhance consistency and rhythm along the whole font. VLNL Bonen is an all-caps display font with a very specific western cowboy or circus look. For instance burger or barbecue grill restaurants would do well with this one. We can easily see it shine on a festival flyer or poster as well, and not just country & western festivals. VLNL Bonen is suitable for any ‘big’ use that needs to stand out of the crowd. Bonen is the Dutch word for beans, a world wide source of nutrition and proteins it comes in a multitude of shapes, colours and sizes. Beans are also the most eaten foods in a cowboy’s diet along the trail. Available in abundance and easily preserved and transported, many recipes on the cattle drives in the American Wild West used beans. Think of chili, mashed beans with biscuits and bean soups. “Keep them doggies movin’, cowboy!”

Stoilen is font duo family serif typeface made with the desire for a quality, elegant, classy font that can still be used for all design needs. Wrapped with a modern yet unique character with a style. with so many alternate variations that are so unique but still elegant, it will add to the impression that this font is so luxurious for your design. Stoilen is ideal for design, logo design, blog graphics, style quotes, wedding stationery, art prints, additional design, packaging, social media, magazines, fashion, creative branding, editorial design and web designing. Features a Latin character set of more than 500 glyphs covering various languages, and includes advanced open type features such as standard and discretionary ligatures, positional numbers, style alternatives, and so on. The Open Type features can be accessed by using Open Type savvy programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop Corel Draw X version, and Microsoft Word. And this has given PUA Unicode Fonts (specially coded fonts). so that all the alternate characters can easily be accessed in full by a craftsman or designer. Features : Lowercase and Uppercase Stylistic Alternates & Discretionary Ligatures Numerals & Punctuations Accented characters Multilingual support Don't forget to check out other cool fonts in our store and wait for new fonts. Follow our shop for upcoming updates including additional glyphs and language support. feel free to send me a message, comment, like and share. Thanks

Samsheriff is a large sans-serif family with a touch of quirkiness. It contains an eclectic mix of letter styles but is very legible. The origin of this typeface was in the caps-only letters used for the novelty font Coffinated. Adding lower-case letters, additional widths, additional weights, and italics resulted in the 30 styles that make up the Samsheriff family.

Vinea is a family of ten display faces that take us on an enjoyable excursion into the world of the retro-futuristic. Ideal for posters, book covers, and anything that needs the sort of futuristic feel that abounded in designs from the 30s to the fifties. The en faces have been designed with uniform metrics, to facilitate multi-coloured overlay effects.