About the type Primæ

Primæ was conceived for learning to read and to write. The type was designed by Titus Nemeth (Wiener Schriften) and Martin Tiefenthaler (typo­graphische gesellschaft austria/tga). It was initially commissioned by the Wiener Bildungs­server and its further development was supported by the Wirtschaftsagentur Wien. The fonts are licensed with an open-source licence that allows free use for non-commercial purposes. You can download the most recent release here. The sources can be accessed on GitHub.

Use and distribution

Primæ has been introduced to teachers in cooperation with the Wiener Bildungs­server and other supporting institutions. Workshops are regularly offered to teachers, demonstrating the didactic and ergonomic advantages of Primæ. To facilitate its adoption in teaching, supporting material is made available free of charge.

Technicalities

The Primæ font software is available in the OpenType format, making it usable on all current platforms. However, as various applications differ in their support for OpenType functionality, not all functions are available everywhere. Since applications keep getting updated regularly, we advise to query developers about the offered level of OpenType support in their products. As can be seen on this website, Primæ is fully functional in current browsers.

OpenType features Regular

affogato fantastico

knock knock knocking

aquamarine quarry

savvy salamander

Useful Ulysses

Jolly Jumper

6 December 1774

-> --> STRAßE 4:5

0123456789

• Old style numerals
• Tabular numerals

1/2 litre, 3/4 cup, 11/61

for E=mc2 see Einstein8

H2O CO2 CH4 C6H12

Yeah! Bravo!!! sehr gut!

OpenType features Cursive

crickey, karate kid

roaring road runner

tricky triceratops

jarringly jagged ridge

tartaruga crickettista

müesli or räksmörgås

7 exceptional texts

sixteensixtysix

preußisch spaßig

hjælper mod bævere

Extremadura, España

Guǎngdōng, Guangxi

København til Køge

Lyon, Lille et Laon

da Roma a Ravenna

Quo vadis Qantas

Ella, Gianna, Karl, León, Quentin, Rosa

Karin, Lucian, Rachel, Quincy

0123456789

• Old style numerals
• Tabular numerals

1/2 litre, 3/4 cup, 11/61

for E=mc2 see Einstein8

H2O CO2 CH4 C6H12

Szkiłłądź Yeah! Bravo!!! sehr gut!

Character set

Supported languages

Primæ currently supports the following 215 languages written with the Latin script: Abenaki, Afaan Oromo, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Amis, Anuta, Aragonese, Aranese, Aromanian, Arrernte, Arvanitic, Asturian, Atayal, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Basque, Bemba, Bikol, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Cape Verdean, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chichewa, Chickasaw, Cimbrian, Cofan, Corsican, Creek, Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dawan, Delaware, Dholuo, Drehu, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Folkspraak, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz, Galician, Ganda, Genoese, German, Gooniyandi, Greenlandic, Guadeloupean, Gwichin, Haitian Creole, Han, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hopi, Hotcak, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Ilocano, Indonesian, Interglossa, Interlingua, Irish, Istroromanian, Italian, Jamaican, Javanese, Jerriais, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kapampangan, Kaqchikel, Karakalpak, Karelian, Kashubian, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Klingon, Kurdish, Ladin, Latin, Latino Sine, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Maasai, Makhuwa, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Maori, Marquesan, Meglenoromanian, Meriam Mir, Mohawk, Moldovan, Montagnais, Montenegrin, Murrinhpatha, Nagamese Creole, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Ngiyambaa, Niuean, Noongar, Norwegian, Novial, Occidental, Occitan, Oshiwambo, Ossetian, Palauan, Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Qeqchi, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romanian, Romansh, Rotokas, Sami Inari, Sami Lule, Sami Southern, Samoan, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Seri, Seychellois, Shawnee, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Slovio, Somali, Sorbian Lower, Sorbian Upper, Sotho Northern, Sotho Southern, Spanish, Sranan, Sundanese, Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvaluan, Tzotzil, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Venetian, Vepsian, Volapuk, Voro, Wallisian, Walloon, Waraywaray, Warlpiri, Wayuu, Welsh, Wikmungkan, Wiradjuri, Wolof, Xhosa, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Zapotec, Zulu, Zuni.