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Relative

Relative is a type family of two halves — a proportional set of weights from Book to Black (including Italics), and fixed-width pitched versions that are abridged by a ‘faux’ monospace cut.
This ‘Faux’ cut takes the restrictions of a monospace typeface, and subverts them into aesthetic traits (notably, see the ‘i’ and ‘l’), allowing the typeface to be spaced proportionally and retain some of the sensibility of its fixed-width cousins.
Relative is available in four weights — Book, Medium, Bold and Black — with corresponding Italics, as well as pitched monospaced variants in 10, 11 and 12 Pitch, and lastly a Faux-monospaced variant. It is available to license in both Standard (‘STD’) and Professional (‘PRO’) versions, the latter contains Cyrillic and Greek scripts and also copious OpenType features and stylistic alternates.
Version
2.003
Designer
Colophon Foundry
Release
2011
Extended I
2019
Category
Sans Serif
Pairings
Raisonné Fortescue
Expanded Family
Relative Faux Relative Mono
Specimen