Hidden inside the newest font family from H&Co are details carefully tuned to the needs of print, web, and mobile designers. Here are five things that make this 172-style superfamily the perfect choice for handling sophisticated content, and creating compelling design.

1  Explore a palette of six widths

Ringside contains an unusually large range of widths for a text face, with six intervals from Compressed to Extra Wide. Designed and built for even the smallest text sizes, each has a unique and distinctive personality. Used together, these widths offer an additional dimension for shaping text, essential for content that’s too sophisticated for just bold and italic. See more.

2  Change the mood with alternates

Many of Ringside’s signature characters are provided in multiple forms, providing subtle ways to quickly change the voice of the text. Switching the straight-legged capital R for an old-fashioned alternate helps shift the tone from modern to antique, and variations of characters like Q and 1 are provided to resolve different kinds of spatial challenges. See more.

3  Choose styles with variety

Instead of using restrained shapes that predictably stretch in every direction, Ringside follows different design decisions in each part of the family to ensure that every style is visually distinctive. As the faces become more compact, round sides are traded for flat ones, and angled strokes are levelled out, preserving the rhythm while creating a distinctive voice. See more.

4  Express more kinds of data

Ringside features fixed-width tabular figures in all six of its widths — even at the very widest end of the spectrum — making it an indispensable tool for expressing all kinds of data. Where its more compact styles are perfect for number-rich content like tables, reports, and statements, the tabular figures in Ringside Wide and Extra Wide are indispensable tools for retail applications such as price lists, menus, and signage. See more.

5  Take your design everywhere

With 172 styles to choose from, Ringside has options for print, web, mobile, and even office environments. Ringside ScreenSmart®, a collection of sixty webfonts engineered for text sizes on screen, can be used on the web through Cloud.typography, and in mobile apps with an App.typography subscription. And for companies that generate branded content in the office, the four Ringside Office families have been specially created to work in business applications such as Microsoft® Word, PowerPoint® and Excel®. See more.

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