Cynapse Pro
DESIGNER
Neil Summerour
RELEASED
2003, 2009
WEIGHTS/STYLES
Regular, Oblique, Bold, Bold Oblique
FORMAT OPTIONS
OpenType (OTF)
TrueType (TTF)
LOCALIZATION
Extended Latin
Purchase
WEBFONT
MyFonts
design information
Several years ago I was faced with a project that required very small type to be used in a directory. In general, there was a need for a lot of 'fine print'. Faced with this, all of the tests I was making with existing faces were producing too much bleed of the individual glyphs...Cynapse was born.

It evolved into this pseduo-techy looking type that standardized and glorified the ink trap (the small, tiny allowances of white space that reduces the amount of ink hitting the page, and in effect, reducing the appearance of bleed). The results was promising.

The new OT version contains additional OpenType features that include expanded ligature sets, fractions, 5 sets of numerals as well as small caps and Central European diacritics.

  Ligatures
(liga)

  Stylistic & Contextual Alts
(salt & calt)

  Small Capitals
(smcp)

  Case Sensitive
(case)

  Numerator/Denominator
(numr/dnom)

  Old Style Numerals
(onum)

Basic Character Set
Small Caps
Numerals, Currency, Math, Fractions, Superiors & Inferiors
Ligatures & Discretionary Ligatures
Diacritics
Symbols
  Latin-1 Support
Albanian, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Finnish, Flemish, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Malay, Norwegian, Portuguese, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog,

Latin Extended-A Support
Afrikaans, Basque, Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Esperanto, Estonian, Fijian, French, Frisian, Greenlandic, Hawaiian, Hungarian, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Māori, Polish, Provençal, Rhaeto-Romanic, Romanian, Moldavian, Romany, Sámi, Samoan, Slovak, Slovenian, Sorbian, Turkish, Welsh

Supported ISO codepages
8859-1 Latin 1 (West European)
8859-2 Latin 2 (Central European)
8859-3 Latin 3 (South European)
8859-4 Latin 4 (Baltic)
8859-9 Latin 5 (Turkish) 8859-10 Latin 6 (Scandinavian)
8859-13 Latin 7 (Baltic 2) 8859-15 Latin 9
8859-16 Latin 10
Cynapse Pro Complete Specimen
(156 kb)
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Cynapse Pro Specimen Poster
(49 kb)
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