- An entire type family contained in a single font file.
- 9 built-in weights: Thin, Extralight, Light, Regular, Medium, Semibold, Bold, Extrabold, and Black as well as any arbitrary weight between Thin and Black.
- 3 built-in widths: Normal, Condensed, and Extra Condensed as well as any arbitrary width between normal and Extra Condensed.
- Matching italics for all weights and widths as well as any arbitrary slant angle between roman and italic.
- Arbitrary slants between Normal and Italic.
- Matching small caps for all styles.*
- Lining and old style figures (proportional and tabular).*
- Full “f” ligature set (ff, fi, fl, ffi, ffl, etc.).*
- Alternate characters (a, l, y, G).*
- Automatic arbitrary fractions.*
- Automatic ordinals.*
- Dingbats (16).
- Extended language support for most Latin-based Western and Central European languages and Vietnamese, as well as Greek and Cyrillic.
- Extended currency support.
* Requires an application or operating system with support for OpenType advanced typography, such as Adobe Creative Cloud, Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher, or QuarkXPress. Check your application’s user guide. OpenType advanced typography is also supported by most modern web browsers through the use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
Mini-Site
Proxima Vara Mini-Site Try out Proxima Vara for yourself.
Proxima Vara Specimens
Proxima Vara Overview The story of Proxima Vara, basic style showings, full character set and technical information. 10 pages. 2 MB PDF.
Proxima Vara Full Specimen Complete text and display specimen for the regular width styles of Proxima Vara, including the full character sets. 172 pages. 7.3 MB PDF.
