Ryan Serif 来自于 2017 年夏天的 TypeSchool 西文字体课程。作为一款标题字体，其融合了现代风格和古典气息。Ryan Serif 曲线的灵感来自于西文书法，西文书法中笔画粗细对比的韵律，成为了 Ryan Serif Regular 字重的特征之一，而粗衬线，则为 Ryan Serif 带来了一股现代的气息。

Ryan Serif is incubated at TypeSchool Latin Course in July 2017. Combining modern slab serif and a classic feel, Ryan Serif is a display typeface that is beautiful and eye-catching. The design of Ryan Serif is inspired by handwriting latin calligraphy, the stroke contrast of which embodies humanity. As for the slab serif, it brings a taste of modernness to the typeface.

你可以在 Ryan Serif 中发现早期拉丁小写字母雏形的痕迹：Ryan Serif 中的 e 的造型借鉴了公元 4 到 8 世纪时安色尔体的字母造型。当然，借助于 OpenType 高级功能，Ryan Serif 提供了更为普适的大写字母 E 造型，你可以方便的在 OpenType 替换字选单中自由选择你偏爱的字母造型。

You can even find the trace of pre-mature historical lowercase letter forms in Ryan Serif. The form of "e" in Ryan Serif honors the "e" from Uncial script commonly used from the 4th to 8th centuries AD. But anyway, if you are not a fan of this "e", Ryan Serif as well offers a more familiar "E" thanks to OpenType Stylish Alternatives feature. You can choose the very one form that you like freely as you want.

Ryan Serif 不仅仅拥有标志性的 Regular 字重，它还是一款拥有三种粗细字重的字体家族。三款字重由 Light 到 Regular，字母左侧一端的笔画粗度由细到粗，字母的整体笔画也从等宽逐渐增大到有强烈的粗细对比。三款字重，在保持设计风格一贯始终的同时，又诞生了三种不同的性格，带给你更加多样的选择。

As a display font family, Ryan Serif provides three font weights varying from Light to Regular. There are something interesting to spot that from Light to Regular, only the left side of the letter widens its stroke. Three weights, while maintaining the unified design characteristic of Ryan Serif, even have their own personalities and possibilites.

Ryan Serif 是一款没有传统小写字母的字体，取而代之的是小型大写字母（Small capitals）。小型大写字母并非是大写字母的机械缩放，而是经过手工仔细调整笔画粗细和字母高度后，与大写字母精心匹配的设计。

Small capitals have taken the place of lowercase letters in Ryan Serif. The small capitals in Ryan Serif are not the fake ones that are merely poor scaling of uppercase letter without manual modification. They are the real ones. The stroke width of the small capitals in this typeface have been carefully adjusted in order to provide a visual harmony when they're with the uppercase letters.

我们生活在一个多语言的世界里，具有独特个性的 Ryan Serif，以希望能够将其魅力带给不止于英语用户的说着更多语言的用户。Ryan Serif 正是为这个多语言的世界量身定制的字体。Ryan Serif 拥有庞大的拉丁字母字符集，以及十分完备的变音符支持，这使得 Ryan Serif 可以用于排版包括英语、德语、法语、西班牙语、加泰罗尼亚语、荷兰语、波兰语、土耳其语、越南语等世界上超过一百种使用拉丁字母的文字。

Since we're all living in a multilingual world, Ryan Serif is tailored for it with a huge glyph set of latin letters including diacritics support. It means that you can type in over 100 languages around the globe with Ryan Serif, including English, Deutsch, Français, Español, Català, Nederlands, Polski, Türkçe and Vietnamese.

此外，使用 OpenType 的本地造型（Localized Forms）功能，你只需在 Adobe InDesign 等专业排版软件中将排版语言设置为对应语言，你还可以实现更为专业的加泰罗尼亚语、荷兰语和土耳其语排版。

There are also OpenType Localized Forms for Català, Nederlands and Türkçe, you can easily toggle them on in professional softwares like Adobe InDesign.

当然，如果你并不需要如此之多的多语言字符和功能，你可以选择 Ryan Serif 的 Standard 版本，此版本包括了英文排版所需的所有字符。如果你需要多语言字符集和本地特性，你可以选择更为高级的 Ryan Serif Pro 版本，此版本包括以上提及的所有多语言特性。你可以依据你的所需自由选择。在决定购买之前，你还可以体验 Ryan Serif 的独立互动站点：http://ryanlau.design/ryan-serif，进一步了解 Ryan Serif。

Ryan Serif has two versions: Standard, and Pro. The Standard version has less glyphs, covering the need of an English speaker. The Pro versions, has a full glyph set and features mentioned above designed for more languages. You can choose the version based on your need. Before you make purchase decision, you may also want to check the standalone interactive site for Ryan Serif: http://ryanlau.design/ryan-serif, and try it for yourself.

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