About this font
Apex New supersedes Apex Sans, which was originally released in early 2003. Once the design was released, Chester started work on Apex Serif, Thirstype’s first OpenType font family; he returned to Apex Sans in early 2004, with a view to extending the glyphset and combining the Small Caps and numeral sets into OpenType fonts. As he worked, he started seeing the type’s flaws, and set about fixing them. Two years later, Apex New was finished. All weights of the type have been revised, and everything heavier than Book has been completely redrawn. The bold weights which had previously “closed up”, especially at smaller sizes, are now more open with subtle contrast; the new version has been described as “elegant”. The family has grown to seven weights, with over a thousand glyphs in each font. The font files are cross-platform CFF-flavoured OpenType, with loads of basic and advanced features.
Grateful thanks and acknowledgment for guidance and assistance are due to: Tracy Jenkins, Christian Schwartz, Karsten Luecke, Adam Twardoch, Jacob Øvergaard, Martin Turzík, Oscar Bjarnason, and Adam Pituła.
Version history
V1.0 – Initial release version; 2006.01
- Features
- Small Caps
- Case Sensitive Layout
- Ligatures
- Common Ligatures
& ISO Codepages
ISO 8859-1
Latin1
Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Danish, English (UK and US), Faroese, Galician, German, Icelandic, Irish (new orthography), Italian, Kurdish (The Kurdish Unified Alphabet), Latin (basic classical orthography), Leonese, Luxembourgish (basic classical orthography), Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk), Occitan, Portuguese (Portuguese and Brazilian), Rhaeto-Romanic, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Walloon
ISO 8859-2
Latin2
Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, German, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian (when in the Latin script), Slovak, Slovene, Upper Sorbian, and Lower Sorbian.
ISO 8859-3
Latin3
Esperanto, Maltese, Turkish
ISO 8859-4
Latin4
Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Greenlandic, Sami
ISO 8859-9
Latin5
Turkish
ISO 8859-10
Latin6
Nordic languages
License Table
| Base License | = | 1 to 4 Computers | |
| Base License | x 2 | = | 5 to 10 Computers |
| Base License | x 3 | = | 11 to 25 Computers |
| Base License | x 4 | = | 26 to 50 Computers |
| Base License | x 5 | = | 51 to 100 Computers |
| Base License | x 10 | = | 101 to 500 Computers |
| Base License | x 20 | = | 501 to 1,500 Computers |
| Base License | x 30 | = | 1,501 to 5,000 Computers |
| Base License | x 40 | = | 5,001 to 10,000 Computers |
| Base License | x 50 | = | 10,001+ Computers |
| Base License | x 1 | = | Single organization static embedding license |
| Base License | x 3 | = | Single website web font embedding license (Projected) |
| Base License | x 5 | = | Single use dynamic embedding license |
Taste Test If you purchase a single weight (or more) of this typeface, then return later to buy the complete family, we will credit you the amount of the original sale.
Constellation End User License Agreement / Version 1.2, March 2012
This is an agreement between you, the purchaser, and Constellation. In accepting the terms of this agreement, you acknowledge understanding and promise to comply with its terms. If you do not accept the terms, please do not complete the purchase transaction.
What you are purchasing from Constellation is the license to use digital typeface software – hereafter “fonts” – on a certain number of computers within your organization; you are not purchasing the copyright to the design of the fonts, but the rights to use the fonts.
The fonts are provided in CFF-flavored OpenType (OTF) format. Additional formats may be available upon demand, and may require the purchase of supplemental licensing.
When purchasing licensing for fonts, you may use the fonts on the maximum number of computers within your organization as specified in the license table. You can purchase additional licenses at any time, which grant you the rights to use the fonts on additional computers.
The fonts may not be used with any web font replacement technologies without permission. Please contact us to discuss.
The standard licensing allows for the fonts to be embedded in other documents, such as Portable Document Format (PDF), Word or PowerPoint, for internal and production purposes only.
The fonts may not be embedded in other documents for external distribution, such as Portable Document Format (PDF), Flash files (including sIFR), Word or PowerPoint, without the purchase of supplemental licensing. Please see the license table.
You may make archival copies of the fonts for your own purposes. You may not distribute the fonts to people outside of your organization. A copy of the fonts may be sent as part of a file release to a prepress bureau, if absolutely necessary.
You may not modify, convert, adapt, decompile, or otherwise reverse engineer or create derivative works of the fonts.
We have done everything we can to produce our fonts to the highest and most up-to-date technical standards, and we test the fonts extensively in the latest versions of technically-compliant applications. If you do experience any difficulties with our fonts, we will work with you to resolve any technical issues in the fonts. If, after we have worked to resolve any technical issues, you are still not satisfied with our software, we will be pleased to refund your money, which shall be the limit of our liability in this transaction.
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