Download Beaufort® Fonts by Shinntype This type is almost a sans serif. It has legibility proportions, and a very large, useful family with specially adapted condensed and extended sub-families. Compared with type set by older technologies, PostScript type, imageset and printed by high-resolution offset lithography, has a remarkable clarity at any size. While many types, old and new, benefit from this level of definition, few designs specifically exploit it. Beaufort does. Its pointed serifs introduce a sharpness of reproduction that was difficult to achieve, at any size, prior to PostScript. This means that small sizes of Beaufort will combine a high word count with good legibility, while large sizes will always display very fine detail. Optical scaling is not required. More In style, Beaufort has a number of affinities. In particular, the bold romans recall a kind of grotesque with small serifs style popular with sign painters and package lettering artists in th...