PT Fonts
The Public Type or PT Fonts are a family of free/libre fonts released from 2009 onwards, comprising PT Sans, PT Serif and PT Mono. They were commissioned from the design agency ParaType by Rospechat, a department of the Russian Ministry of Communications, to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Peter the Great's orthography reform and to create a font family that supported all the different variations of Cyrillic script used by the minority languages of Russia, as well as the Latin alphabet.
| Category | Font superfamily |
|---|---|
| Classification | Humanist sans-serif Transitional serif Monospaced font |
| Designer(s) | Alexandra Korolkova with Olga Umpelova and Vladimir Yefimov |
| Commissioned by | Rospechat |
| Foundry | ParaType |
| Date created | 2009 |
| Date released | 13 January 2010 |
| License | SIL Open Font License or ParaType Free Font License |
Primarily designed by Alexandra Korolkova, the family includes sans-serif and serif designs, both with caption styles for small-print text, and a monospaced font for use in programming. They are available under the English-language SIL Open Font License; the original font, PT Sans, was also released under ParaType's own Free Font License, and regular and bold with italics is free in Google. Additional styles, such as extended, condensed and extra-bold, are sold from ParaType as PT Sans Pro and PT Serif Pro.