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OpenType Character Sets – OpenType Com

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

All OpenType Com Fonts at Linotype.com

OpenType Com fonts have been optimised for international communication and for use with Office applications. Linotype has defined an extended character set for these fonts, the Linotype Extended European Character set (LEEC).

Characters for OpenType Std and OpenType Pro (gray) and OpenType Com (gray + black):



With 387 characters, this standard guarantees that 48 languages can be supported by every OpenType Com font. In addition to the languages already listed for the “Std” and “Pro” categories, these are:
Afrikaans, Albanian
Basque, Bosnian, Breton
Catalan, Cornish, Croatian, Czech
Danish, Dutch
English, Estonian
Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian
Gaelic/Irish, Gaelic/Manx, Gaelic/Scots, Gagauz (Latin), Galician, German
Hungarian
Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian
Karelian
Ladin, Latvian, Lithuanian
Maltese, Moldavian (Latin)
Norwegian
Polish, Portuguese
Rheto-Romance, Romanian
Saami, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Sorbian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish
Turkish, Turkmen/Latin.

These fonts may also include further languages and typefaces specific typographical character variants.

more ... OpenType FAQ


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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Neue Helvetica® 55 Roman (Linotype Originals)
OpenType ComOpenType ProOpenType StdWindows TrueTypeWindows PostScriptMac PostScript
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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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