Linotype’s compact size of Spartan meant for classified ads, offered at 5pt. Descenders were reduced and circular rounds were condensed to ovals.

Bitstream’s digitization is named Geometric 212. A version with a double-story ‘a’ was sold by Agfa as Sans No. 1. [Agfa, 1994]

See Clemens Piontek’s Home SPM for a reinterpretation.