Bell Centennial 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
Matthew Carter designed Bell Centennial in 1978 specifically for AT&T Corporation (the name honors their 100th anniversary) to use in telephone books. Carter developed it to have high legibility at small sizes, and for composition on high-speed, cathode-ray-tube composing machines. (Bell Gothic, the typeface originally designed for telephone books in 1937 and for composition on the hot metal Linotype machines, was no longer usable in the new technology.) Bell Centennial is a sturdy, condensed sans-serif design that achieves great economy of space while being highly legible. Bell Centennial can be used for modern display purposes and, of course, for small print and lists. The Alternate version of Bell Centennial Bold Listing sits on a standard baseline; the original version sits far below the baseline, and cannot mix properly with other fonts on the same line.
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 Bell Centennial Std: version 2.030 created on Thu Aug 16 20:22:46 2007.
version 2.030 created 2007/08/16
- Release for FontFolio 11
- Added 'ordn' reference to 'aalt'.
- Removed majuscule substitutions from 'ordn'.
- Removed substitutions from majuscule letters to minuscle, superior letters.
- 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 uppercase 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 legacy superior numbers.
- Added glyphs: onesuperior, twosuperior, threesuperior as duplicates of one.superior, two.superior, three.superior.
- Renamed f-ligatures.
- Font had ligature glyphs, did not have 'liga' feature, and was missing legacy f-ligature characters.
- Renamed glyphs: f_i to fi; f_l to fl.
- Removed 'liga' substitutions where no visible change results.
- Standard f-ligatures are equivalent to their constituent letters; ligature substitutions for them were removed.
- Added uni2215 (divisionslash) to 'slash' context in 'frac' feature.
- Added redundant legacy f-ligature substitutions to 'smcp' feature.
- To 'smcp' feature, added redundant substitutions from fi to fi, and fl to fl.
- Added redundant dotlessi substitution to 'smcp' feature.
- To 'smcp' feature, added redundant substitution from dotlessi to dotlessi.
- Removed all small cap substitutions from 'smcp' feature.
- In fonts which have small caps forms for their lowercase characters, changed substitutions in 'smcp' feature to substitute these letters for themselves, rather than small cap alternates which look the same. In such fonts, a 'smcp' feature is necessary only to prevent applications from creating "faux" small caps. The small cap glyphs previously used in 'smcp' remain in the font for backwards-compatibility, but will no longer appear as alternates in OpenType UIs.
- Added 'ss01' feature for the font's alternative glyph set.
- Added 'ss01' reference to 'aalt'.
- Added 'salt' reference to 'aalt' feature.
- Font has 'salt' feature which was missing from 'aalt'.
- Renamed small cap alternate glyphs. Glyphs named as alternates to lowercase characters, e.g. 'a.scalt', were renamed to uppercase equivalents, e.g. 'A.scalt'. These names reflect the fact that they are used as small cap alternates to uppercase characters, and that such lowercase alternates are not necessary because the font's lowercase characters are already lowercase.
- Added alternate glyphs to complete feature coverage.
- Added glyphs: a.superioralt, o.superioralt, onesuperior.alt, twosuperior.alt, threesuperior.alt, A.superioralt, O.superioralt.
- Renamed alternate f-ligatures.
- Font does not have 'liga' feature, but is missing alternates of legacy f-ligature characters.
- Renamed glyphs: f_i.alt to fi.alt; f_l.alt to fl.alt.
- 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.
version 1.040 created 2002/10/12
- First release as OpenType.
- Some glyphs in the font cannot be accessed unless you are using an OpenType-savvy application.
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