Featuring Galaxie Copernicus, Polaris & Polaris Condensed
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2005.02.16
About this font
The design of Galaxie Polaris was quite literally a labour of love. I created the typeface for my then-fiancee, now-wife Tracy for use in her MFA thesis. (Design of the font commenced in 2002, with a couple of “false starts” which may find their way to market at some point in the future.)
Galaxie was always planned to be a large family of families, all designed to work together. Polaris is the first Galaxie typeface to be completed, with the script Cassiopeia released in 2006, and serif and egyptian faces in the pipeline. Polaris was named for the pole star, and is the reference point for the development of the rest of the families.
Version 3 of Galaxie Polaris was released in September 2008, and includes the addition of the Cyrillic script, small caps, an alternate I, extended fractions, and improvements to many glyphs, particularly in the Heavy weight.
Type is a tool for delivering language; with Polaris, I set out to make a typeface that does this clearly and concisely, with the minimum of fuss.
Version history
V1.0 – Initial release version; 2004.08
V2.0 – Public revision 1 with improvements to bold weights and improved kerning: 2005.04
V3.0 – Public revision 2 including addition of Cyrillic, small caps, and minor glyph improvements and glyph set extension: 2008.09
- Features
- Small Caps
- Case Sensitive Layout
& 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 8859-5
Cyrillic
Bulgarian, Belarusian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian
ISO 8859-9
Latin5
Turkish
ISO 8859-10
Latin6
Nordic languages
License Table
| Base License | = | 1 to 3 Computers | |
| Base License | x 2 | = | 4 to 8 Computers |
| Base License | x 3 | = | 9 to 15 Computers |
| Base License | x 4 | = | 16 to 25 Computers |
| Base License | x 5 | = | 26 to 40 Computers |
| Base License | x 6 | = | 41 to 60 Computers |
| Base License | x 7 | = | 61 to 85 Computers |
| Base License | x 8 | = | 86 to 115 Computers |
| Base License | x 10 | = | 116 to 155 Computers |
| Base License | x 12 | = | 156 to 205 Computers |
| Base License | x 14 | = | 206 to 265 Computers |
| Base License | x 16 | = | 266 to 335 Computers |
| Base License | x 18 | = | 336 to 415 Computers |
| Base License | x 20 | = | 416 to 505 Computers |
| Base License | x 25 | = | 506 to 625 Computers |
| Base License | x 30 | = | 626 to 775 Computers |
| Base License | x 37 | = | 776 to 1000 Computers |
| Base License | x 45 | = | 1001 to 1325 Computers |
| Base License | x 55 | = | 1326 to 1800 Computers |
| Base License | x 67 | = | 1801 to 2500 Computers |
| Base License | x 80 | = | 2501 to 3500 Computers |
| Base License | x 100 | = | 3501 to 5000 Computers |
| Base License | x 125 | = | 5001 to 7500 Computers |
| Base License | x 150 | = | 7501 to 12500 Computers |
| Base License | x 200 | = | 12501 to ∞ Computers |
| Supplemental licensing | |||
| Base License | x 3 | = | Web font embedding |
| Base License | x 5 | = | Dynamic embedding |
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