The Katarine alphabet originated from one capital typeface meant for text setting of posters and jobbing prints. After finishing the lower case characters a Medium typeface was created followed by Light and Bold. By Interpolation and never-ending correction of generated characters Regular and Semibold typefaces were added. For every tincture there are small caps types with higher mid-height and petite caps types with conforming mid-height in base typeface also containing non-aligning numeral characters. And of course there is an Expert type with fractions, many arrows and frames in pertinent impressions. For a demanding text setting there is a Numbers typeface containing numeral characters in four different frames. There are several drawing principles applied in the construction of the characters. Upper-case characters stem from an oval shape and therefore are lighter in the higher parts, lower case characters are drawn from a more robust square shape and better fit the baseline. Numeral characters are almost geometrical. These principles contradict each other which results in a very nice tension within the text. Although the font does not have any extra adjustment for the mid-height and is slightly condensed, it excels in readability even in small sizes. The characteristic design is very well-suited to poster sizes.