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Eras

Eras is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Albert Boton and Albert Hollenstein and released by the International Typeface Corporation (ITC) in 1976.

About Eras

Eras is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Albert Boton and Albert Hollenstein and released by the International Typeface Corporation (ITC) in 1976. Eras is licensed by the Linotype type foundry. A distinct and curious feature of Eras is its slight, 3-degree right tilt. Eras follows ITC's formulary of increased x-height, and multiple weights from light to ultra bold, though because all weights are slightly slanted, no italic version of the font is supplied. Eras is further distinct for its open bowls on the characters a, P, R, 6, and 9. The letter W changes shape from a merged 'double V' shape in the lighter variants to the standard W symbol in the bolder variants. Four TrueType weights of this font (Light, Medium, Demi and Bold) are included with some editions of Microsoft Word, though not with the Windows operating system itself.

From the Wikipedia article “Eras (typeface)”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Using Eras in a book

Test this typeface at both text and display sizes before committing; print a sample page at final size.

Commercial typefaces require a licence that covers embedding in PDFs and ebooks; check the foundry's licence before you publish.

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