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Introduction
The need to read and absorb information quickly and easily has never been greater. The amount of information available to us, either on paper or on screen, grows daily. It is essential to have a typeface that is both extremely legible as well as aesthetically pleasing.
Linotype’s Compatil is the first type system that incorporates such a comprehensive range of typographic features, delivering optimal legibility and design potential. The metric and visual concept that is used for Compatil allows type styles to be mixed and interchanged seemlessly due to identical letterspacing within individual heights. This universal type system can be employed for virtually all aspects of corporate communication – from websites to annual reports as well as for mass composition for books, magazines and newspapers. The Compatil type system is a model of technical innovation offering a new level of design quality. The system is comprised of four different type styles: Compatil Exquisit, Compatil Fact, Compatil Letter and Compatil Text. By maintaining a consistent letter width throughout each of the four type styles, this system allows the same character from each of the styles to be interchanged with one another, without having any effect on the width of the text. Having equal proportions and identical gray tones inside each of the styles and weights allows all of the systems’s typefaces to be comfortably combined with one another and gives one the widest range of aesthetic combinations possible.
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Compatil Fact
Compatil Letter
Compatil Text