Balzano® Std
Minimum system requirements
Windows®
- Intel® Pentium,® Intel Centrino,® Intel Xeon,® or Intel Core™ Duo processor
- Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Vista™
- 16 MB of RAM (32 MB recommended)
- Note:
Fonts from Font Folio 11 may also be installed under Microsoft Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition,
and Windows NT® 4.0 with Service Pack 4 if you install Adobe Type Manager® (ATM™) Light
4.1 on your system. If using a PostScript® printer on Windows 98/ME, AdobePS™ printer
driver 4.3 or later is recommended. If using a PostScript printer
on Windows NT 4.0, AdobePS printer driver 5.1.2 or later is recommended.
Macintosh
- PowerPC® G4 or G5 or multicore Intel processor
- Mac OS X
- 16 MB of RAM (32 MB recommended)
- If using a PostScript printer, the latest AdobePS printer driver is recommended.
- Note: Fonts from Font Folio 11 may be installed under Mac OS 8.6 through 9.2 with ATM Light 4.6,
and under Classic mode in Mac OS X with ATM Light 4.6.2.
History
America’s most famous carver of inscriptions, including those at the John F. Kennedy Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery, John Benson conceived Balzano (Italian for “bouncing”) as an upright script whose character would come from active individual strokes and letter shapes. He was particularly inspired by a page of pen-written letters by calligrapher Raphael Boguslav. As a result, Balzano features thin hairlines and pronounced vertical strokes with active terminals. Open counterforms and varying letter heights contribute to the vitality of this 1995 Adobe Originals release. Although suitable for brief copy in larger text sizes, Balzano excels in display settings.
Menu Names And Style Linking
The fonts in this family have no style links: none are a bold or italic
variant of another.
You should note that selecting a style option such
as bold or italic with any of these faces will either have no effect,
or result in programmatic bolding or slanting of the base font,
which will usually produce inferior screen and print results.
For all fonts of family Balzano Std: version 2.031 created on Wed Jun 13 16:01:47 2007.
version 2.031 created 2007/06/13
- Release for FontFolio 11
- Added 'ordn' reference to 'aalt'.
- Removed majuscule substitutions from 'sups'.
- Removed substitutions from majuscule letters to minuscle, superior letters.
- Added superior alternates for lowercase a and o.
- Added glyphs: a.superior as duplicate of ordfeminine; o.superior as duplicate of ordmasculine.
- Changed substitutions in 'ordn' and 'sups' from ordinals to these new alternates.
- Added superior alternates for numbers.
- Added glyphs: one.superior, two.superior, three.superior as duplicates of onesuperior, twosuperior, threesuperior.
- Changed substitutions in 'sups' to use new alternates.
- Simplified 'ordn' feature.
- Removed contextual rules from 'ordn' feature. Simplified substitutions.
- Added f-ligatures for use in 'liga' feature.
- Added glyphs: f_i as duplicate of fi; f_l as duplicate of fl.
- Changed substitutions in 'liga' to use these new ligatures.
- Add new glyphs to appropriate kern classes.
- Removed Turkish language lookup from 'liga' feature.
- Font character set does not support Turkish, so language exceptions for ligatures are not necessary.
- Also, Turkish language feature coverage was not properly specified anyway.
- Added uni2215 (divisionslash) to 'slash' context in 'frac' feature.
- Updated legal notices (trademark, copyright, and patent) for accuracy. Amended, changed and deleted as necessary. Ensured 'Notice' field in CFF fontinfo dictionary is the union of copyright and trademark notices in OTF 'name' table.
- Added uni2010 (hyphen2).
- Added 'size' feature containing a design size value.
- Add default language system.
- OpenType language system coverage for script 'dflt' and language 'DFLT' was added.
- First build and release of basic ISOAdobe2 fonts for Library Revision. This is one of a set of fonts which have identical glyph sets and layout features. The following changes were made:
- Removed a superfluous '@FIGURES' class.
- Removed contextual marks from 'frac' feature, making it a regular ligature substitution.
- Duplicated ordfeminine as a.superior, ordmasculine as o.superior.
- Simplified 'ordn' feature. Removed context and changed to substitute a->a.superior and o->o.superior.
- Added 'ordn' to 'aalt'.
- Added a.superior and o.superior to 'sups'.
- Renamed several working names in the alias file to match 'font.pfa' names and ensure their ordering in the font.
version 1.018 created 2002/02/07
- First release as OpenType.
- Some glyphs in the font cannot be accessed unless you are using an OpenType-savvy application.
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