The first versions of Nimbus Sans have been designed and digitized in the 1980s for the URW SIGNUS sign-making system. Highest precision of all characters (1/100 mm accuracy) as well as spacing and kerning were required because the fonts should be cut in any size in vinyl or other material used for sign-making. During this period three size ranges were created for text (T), the display (D) and poster (P) for small, medium and very large font sizes. In addition, we produced a so-called L-version that was compatible to Adobe’s PostScript version of Helvetica. Nimbus was also the product name of a URW-proprietary renderer for high quality and fast rasterization of outline fonts, a software provided to the developers of PostScript clone RIPs (Hyphen, Harlequin, etc.) back then.

Hemispheres perfectly represents clean and classy design in four weights: Script 1, Script 2, Caps 1, and Caps 2. The project was inspired by unique labels, badges, and packaging and works well for additional cases such as logotype, branding, packaging, quotes, business cards and more. Hemispheres feature uppercase, lowercase, numeral, punctuation & symbol, ligatures, stylistic alternates, multilingual support, PUA encoded. How to get access alternate glyphs from open type fonts check this link : http://adobe.ly/1m1fn4Y