A Modular Type System
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 interchanded 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 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 system´s typefaces to be comfortable combined with one another and gives one the widest range of aesthetic combinations possible.
Exquisit, Fact, Letter, Text
Compatil combines simple yet effective design with a highly innovative type system. The ability to easily set text with different but compatible styles opens up unlimited horizons for typographic creativity
The Compatil type system was created to allow different tones of text to be expressed and emphasised through compatible type styles. These expressive and emotional characteristics cover all possible applications and are fundamental for effective typography.
gives the feelings of a poetic and narrative nature and posses discriptive, distinguished and classic qualities.
combines the qualities of being objective and informative and comes across as sober, functional and stable.
gives the impression of being informative and poetic and is discriminating, balanced yet robust in character.
has a semantic profile that is midway between narrative and objective. Its features are reserved, factual and authoritative.