Any of the Garamond font families can be used as a substitute if Garamond Premier is not available on your machine. Garamond Premier is currently used as a serifed alternative to Avenir and in UMBC Magazine. Garamond, a French punchcutter, produced a refined array of book types in the mid-1500s that combine an unprecedented degree of balance and elegance and stand as a pinnacle of beauty and practicality in typefounding. Garamond Premier, a serif typeface, had its genesis in 1988, when Adobe senior type designer Robert Slimbach visited the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp, Belgium, to study the collection of Claude Garamond’s metal punches and type designs. Recognizing that circumstances may arise where the use of Avenir Next as the sole body font for brochures and advertisements is too restrictive, additional families of text fonts have been identified for use on UMBC publications and digital communications. Please note: we have transitioned the Sites web environment to Inter, and plan to transition other university-owned webpages to that in the near future. Several OpenType features are provided as well, like contextual alternates that adjust punctuation depending on the shape of surrounding glyphs, slashed zero for when you need to disambiguate “0” from “o”, tabular numbers, etc. Inter features a tall x-height to aid in the readability of mixed-case and lower-case text. You can view and/or purchase the Avenir Next font family on Interįrom Google Fonts: Inter is a variable font family carefully crafted & designed for computer screens.

Since the original version of Avenir only included three font weights, Avenir Next was released in 2004 with 24 different font styles. The name Avenir is French for “future,” and takes inspiration from early geometric sans-serif typefaces Erbar (1922) designed by Jakob Erbar, and Futura (1927) designed by Paul Renner. Avenir was released by Linotype GmbH, now a subsidiary of Monotype Corporation. It is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed in 1988 by Adrian Frutiger. Avenir Next is the primary font in UMBC publications and is exclusively used in the university’s campus way-finding and signage system.

Avenir next condensed font family