PT Serif Pro is a universal type family to be used in combination with PT Sans Pro family released earlier. PT Serif Pro matches PT Sans Pro in metrics, proportions, weights and design. It consists of 38 styles: 6 weights (from light to black) with corresponding italics of normal proportions; 6 weights (from light to black) with corresponding italics of narrow proportions; 6 weights (from light to black) with corresponding italics of extended proportions; and 2 caption styles (regular and italic) for texts of small point sizes. The letterforms are distinguished by large x-height, modest stroke contrast, robust wedge-like serifs, and triangular terminals. Due to these features the face keeps up with modern trends of type design and provides enhanced legibility. Alongside the conventional use in business applications and printed stuff, these features made the fonts quite useable for advertising and display typography. In addition to standard Latin and Cyrillic character sets, each style contains alphabet glyphs of title languages of all the national republics of the Russian Federation and supports most of the languages of the neighboring countries. The fonts were developed and released by ParaType in 2011. The font was designed by Alexandra Korolkova with the assistance of Olga Umpeleva and under the supervision of Vladimir Yefimov. PT Serif family together with PT Sans won a Bronze Award in the Original Typeface category on ED-Awards Design Festival in May of 2011.
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