From now more than ever, NewPanam Skyline can be used on its own. With the different styles – now spanning four weights from Regular to Black, all with italics – it is a fully fledged family in its own right. In conformity with classic sans-serifs, the italics are oblique in nature. They set themselves apart from the upright through the unusually deep slant, which is carried over from the conventional italics of the Didot. The Skyline italics provide a sense of dynamism and urgency.

A special typographic weapon is hidden in the glyph set of NewPanam Skyline. The fonts hold expressive alternates for all capitals and many lowercase letters. Some letters take on hyper-cursive forms – most dramatically in ‘E’ or ‘w’ –, strokes accelerate and fade to hairlines, diagonals shoot into and out of the letters like thunderbolts. These “kinetic” alternates may remind you of an airplane writing a message into the sky, the stylized trace of paint left by a spray can, or the afterimage of a flashlight moved around in the dark of the night. You can access these stylistic alternates via OpenType features.