Utopia STD Opticals Readme

Utopia® Std Opticals
Release Notes
Introduction
Utopia is an Adobe Originals text face designed by Robert Slimbach in . It combines the verti-
cal stress and pronounced stroke contrast of eighteenth-century “transitional” types like Baskerville
and Walbaum with contemporary innovations in character shapes and stroke details. Utopia has four
weights, plus a titling font and an Expert Collection, all of which combine to make a flexible family
of types that is excellent for a range of applications from corporate communications and advertising
to book and newspaper publishing. In the  OpenType version of Utopia, Slimbach revised his
original design, and extended it with a full set of optical size variants.
OpenType®
OpenType “.otf ” fonts are compact single-file cross-platform fonts, which can have extended language
support based on Unicode, and enhanced typographic layout features. For OpenType information,
including the OpenType User Guide, the OpenType Readme (application compatibility notes), and
OpenType Specimen Book PDFs, visit Adobe’s Web site at http://www.adobe.com/type/opentype.
About optical sizes

Typefaces with optical size variants have had their designs subtly adjusted for use at specific point
size ranges. is capability reintroduces one of the features of hand-cut metal type, which uses a
separate font for each point size and is oen optically adjusted. is is an advantage over the current
common practice of scaling a single digital type design to different point sizes, which may reduce
legibility at smaller sizes or sacrifice subtlety at larger sizes.
e objective of optical sizing is to maintain the integrity and legibility of the underlying typeface
design throughout a range of point sizes. e adjustments typically made to the design to optimize
it for different sizes are: for larger point sizes, the space between characters (letter fit) tightens, the
space within characters (counterforms) closes up (i.e., the letters are slightly more condensed), the
serifs become finer and the stroke contrast becomes greater, the overall weight becomes lighter, and
the x-height gradually diminishes; for smaller point sizes, opposite adjustments are made.
Smaller optical sizes are also useful when output resolution is very limited, such as for on-screen
display. One might choose to use a smaller optical size design for creating text on buttons for a Web
page, for example.
ese adjustments can improve the legibility of intermediate point sizes further if there is a greater
change in design at smaller sizes than at larger sizes. For example, the difference in design between
the Caption and Regular optical sizes, which
Hkg Hkg
may have a difference in size of only  points, is
almost as much as the difference between the
regular and display sizes, which have a difference
of - points.
Although any of the fonts may be used at
any size, the intended point sizes for the optical A few glyphs from the Caption (-. point) and Display (.-
point) designs of the Utopia Std typeface, scaled to the same point
designs of this family are: size for comparison. Note the lower contrast of the sturdy Cap-
Caption: –. point tion design compared to the more delicate Display design.
Regular: .–. point
Subhead: .–. point
Display/Headline: .+ point Utopia Std Opticals 1
Release Notes
OpenType layout feature highlights:
e most prominent OpenType layout features in these fonts are: small caps, oldstyle figures, ligatures,
discretionary ligatures, contextual swash alternates, fractions, superscript, inferiors (subscript), and
“all alternates.” Note that the choice of which OpenType features are supported is specific to each
application.
For a full showing of all the glyphs available in this font, see the Glyph Complement PDF, available
online at http://www.adobe.com/type (from there, go to the page for this specific font package).
Style links & font menus

e weight links in this family are: Regular to Bold. e Semibold and Black weights are not linked.
In both Windows and Mac OS applications, using the bold style button on weights that do not link
to a heavier weight is not recommended.
In many Windows® applications, instead of every font appearing on the menu, italic styles and the
bold weight are accessible only by use of the italic and bold style buttons. For example, you could
have all four weights of Utopia Std installed, but in your font menu you might see only the Regular,
Semibold and Black; the Bold weight would be accessed by selecting the Regular and using the bold
style button.
On the Mac OS, although each font appears as a separate entry on the font menu, users may also
select fonts by means of style links. Selecting the “base weight” and then using the style links (as
described above for Windows) enhances cross-platform document compatibility with many applica-
tions, such as Microso® Word and Adobe PageMaker®, although it is unnecessary with more sophisti-
cated Adobe applications such as recent versions of Illustrator®, Photoshop® or InDesign®. One should
not, however, select a style-linked “bold” from the menu (such as the Semibold or Bold for Cronos
Pro), and then additionally use the bold styling button; doing so will either have no effect, or result
in “faked” further bolding, which will usually produce inferior screen and print results. (e same is
also true for italics; never select an italic font and then apply an italic style.)
Package-specific compatibility notes

For general OpenType compatibility and usage notes, see the OpenType Readme. e latest version
can be found on the Adobe Web site at http://www.adobe.com/type/opentype.
Language coverage
ISO-Adobe
ISO-Adobe language coverage includes Afrikaans, Breton, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French,
Gaelic, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Sami, Spanish, Swahili
and Swedish.
Windows code pages supported

Latin 1: WinANSI (code page )
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Release Notes
Mac OS language support
On Mac OS 8–9, with applications using OS-level language support, only the MacRoman encoding
is supported. Support for the following additional Mac language groups exists in the font, and may
be available in some Adobe applications, or in Unicode-supporting applications under Mac OS X:
Icelandic & Faroese
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