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OpenType Character Sets – OpenType Std

At the moment there are five distinct categories of OpenType fonts: OpenType Std, OpenType Pro, OpenType Com, OpenType W1G (WGL4), and OpenType W2G.

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Generally, text fonts in the OpenType Std category contain an extended Latin character set like the following:



This character set supports the following 21 languages:

Afrikaans, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Gaelic (Irish, Scots), German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Saami (Southern), Spanish, Swahili, Swedish.

In individual cases, further non-Latin lan-guages and typographical character variants may be included in these fonts. In some cases headline or fun fonts may not support all the languages listed above.

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