Quartal is a family of stylish sans serif typefaces of condensed proportions. The family consists of 5 regular weights and 4 condensed ones. At first there was intention to release just 4 condensed weights for headlines and advertizing texts, but latter 5 styles of wider proportions were added. As the result the area of applications becomes much wider due to possibility to use the font for smaller point sizes. The name Quartal, which in this case means city quarter, according to author’s associations emphasizes advertizing nature of the design most suitable to the urban environment. Character set of the fonts covers alphabets of Western Europe and basic Cyrillic languages. Besides it includes a range of alternatives, especially in Cyrillic part. Design was done by Oleg Karpinsky. Released by ParaType in 2010.