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OpenType Info

Advanced Typography and Layout Features

The types of features in OpenType fonts can be divided into typographic and layout features.

Typography Features


An OpenType font can contain a wide range of specially designed glyphs such as small caps, old style figures, fractions, ligatures, alternate swash forms and more. In Type 1 and TrueType fonts these glyphs have to be stored in individual fonts. Now the design specific collection of glyphs is in a single file and the selection of the designed form is done by picking the appropriate feature from the feature menu.


Layout Features


Layout features for non-Latin fonts basically depend on linguistic requirements of the language. Many non-Latin languages require a specific positioning of glyphs. Arabic, for example, requires the glyphs to be positioned from right to left. The most prominent layout feature for Latin scripts (as well as for many non-Latin) is kerning.


How to download OpenType fonts:


If you enter the name of the desired typeface into the search field you will receive a list of all fitting fonts in all available formats.

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Adobe OpenType user guide is available as pdf file. Please download:
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Take a look at the OpenType Top Sellers from Linotype:


Frutiger® 55 Roman (Linotype Originals)
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Neue Helvetica® 55 Roman (Linotype Originals)
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Univers® 55 Roman (Linotype Originals)
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Optima® Roman (Linotype Originals)
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Sabon® Roman (Linotype Originals)
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Eurostile® Extended #2 (Linotype Originals)
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Zapfino® Extra Regular (Linotype Originals)
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The special contextual features of this font can only function in applications that fully support OpenType!
 
     
PMN Caecilia® 55 Roman (Linotype Originals)
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Avenir® 35 Light (Linotype Originals)
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Caflisch Script™ Regular (Assorted Collection)
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Frutiger, Helvetica, Sabon and Univers are trademarks of Linotype Corp. registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions in the name of Linotype Corp. or its licensee Linotype GmbH. Avenir, Eurostile, Optima, PMN Caecilia and Zapfino are trademarks of Linotype GmbH registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions.

PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Inc.

Caflisch Script is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated which may be registered in certain jurisdictions.

TrueType is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.

OpenType is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.

Unicode is a trademark of Unicode, Inc.

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