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OpenType Character Sets – OpenType Std

At the moment there are three distinct categories of OpenType fonts: OpenType Std, OpenType Pro and OpenType Com.

All OpenType Standard Fonts at Linotype.com

Ideally, 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 languages 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.

more ... OpenType Pro


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)
OpenType ComOpenType ProOpenType StdWindows TrueTypeWindows PostScriptMac PostScript
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Price from: US$ 26.00
 
 
   
Neue Helvetica® 55 Roman (Linotype Originals)
OpenType ComOpenType ProOpenType StdWindows TrueTypeWindows PostScriptMac PostScript
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Price from: US$ 26.00
 
 
   
Univers® 55 Roman (Linotype Originals)
OpenType ComOpenType ProOpenType StdWindows TrueTypeWindows PostScriptMac PostScript
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Price from: US$ 26.00
 
 
   
Optima® Roman (Linotype Originals)
OpenType StdWindows TrueTypeWindows PostScriptMac PostScript
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Price from: US$ 26.00
 
 
   
Sabon® Roman (Linotype Originals)
OpenType StdWindows TrueTypeWindows PostScriptMac PostScript
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Price from: US$ 26.00
 
 
   
Eurostile® Extended #2 (Linotype Originals)
OpenType StdWindows TrueTypeWindows PostScriptMac PostScript
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Price from: US$ 26.00
 
 
   
Zapfino® Extra Regular (Linotype Originals)
OpenType Pro
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Price from: US$ 65.00
 
 
The special contextual features of this font can only function in applications that fully support OpenType!
 
     
PMN Caecilia® 55 Roman (Linotype Originals)
OpenType ComOpenType ProOpenType StdWindows TrueTypeWindows PostScriptMac PostScript
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Price from: US$ 26.00
 
 
   
Avenir® 35 Light (Linotype Originals)
OpenType ComOpenType ProOpenType StdWindows TrueTypeWindows PostScriptMac PostScript
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Price from: US$ 26.00
 
 
   
Caflisch Script™ Regular (Assorted Collection)
OpenType Pro
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Price from: US$ 35.00
 
 
   
 

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.

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

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

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