Aptos is available in the following styles: Light, Light Italic, Regular, Italic, Semibold, Semibold Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Extrabold, Extrabold Italic, Black, and Black Italic. The typeface has several distinct characteristics which make the typeface easily readable. • It has horizontal and vertical stroke endings based on
Helvetica as opposed to the slanted stroke ending of
Arial. • It removed the distinctive tail of the lowercase letter "a" and added it to the lowercase letter "l" (L), as in the lowercase letter "t", which prevents
homoglyph confusion with the uppercase letter "I" (i). • The shapes of the uppercase letters in "O" and "R" and the lowercase letter "a" are slightly irregular. • It has a double-story lowercase letter "g" with an angled stem instead of the single-story letter, as in Helvetica, and the uppercase letter "G" is rounded and has no spur. • Little swing tail of uppercase letter "R". • Lowercase letters "b", "c", and "p" and the uppercase letter "C" have wide contours. • It has circular dot in
punctuations,
diacritics, and
tittles in lowercase letters "i" and "j" as opposed to the square dots in Arial and Helvetica. • The curved top flag of the numeral "1" is based on Arial. • Slanted stem of the numeral "7". • The curved tail of the uppercase letter "Q" meets its
counter. Aptos includes characters from Latin,
Latin script in Unicode,
Greek, and
Cyrillic script. The
Italic type characters of Aptos are individually redrawn, rather than mechanically slanted. The italic does not have cursive forms except Cyrillic scripts; instead, the letter shapes are
oblique forms of the upright letters, as opposed to the true italic form of Calibri. == History ==