Bickham Script® Pro
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
Richard Lipton's Bickham Script is a flowing, formal script typeface based on the lettering of 18th century writing masters, as rendered in the unparalleled engravings of George Bickham. This ornate script lends a signature flourish to invitations, menus, annual reports, restaurant logos, and packaging. With dozens of alternate letterforms in addition to its range of weights, Bickham Script's personality can range from poised to extravagant. It is intended primarily for display settings.
Menu Names And Style Linking
In many Windows® applications, instead of every font appearing on
the menu, fonts are grouped into style-linked sets, and only the name of
the base style font for a set is shown in the menu. The italic and the
bold weight fonts of the set (if any) are not shown in the font menu, but can still be
accessed by selecting the base style font, and then using the italic
and bold style buttons. In this family, such programs will show only the
following base style font names in the menu:
Bickham Script Pro Regular
Bickham Script Pro Semibold
The other fonts in this family must be selected by choosing a menu name
and then a style option following the guide below.
| Menu Name | | plus Style Option... | | selects this font |
| Bickham Script Pro Regular | | [none] | | Bickham Script Pro Regular |
| Bickham Script Pro Regular | | Bold | | Bickham Script Pro Bold |
| | | | | |
| Bickham Script Pro Semibold | | [none] | | Bickham Script Pro Semibold |
| | | | | |
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 a base style font and then using the style links (as described
above for Windows) enhances cross-platform document compatibility with
many applications, such as Microsoft® Word and Adobe PageMaker®,
although it is unnecessary with more sophisticated Adobe applications
such as recent versions of Illustrator®, Photoshop® or
InDesign®.
One should not, however, select a base font which has no style-linked
variant, and then use the bold or italic styling button. Doing so 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 Bickham Script Pro: version 2.118 created on Wed Mar 23 15:54:54 2011.
version 2.118 created 2011/03/23
- Added code at end of name ID 3 'Unique Name' to indicate licensing foundry.
- Remove deprecated ForceBold keyword from CFF table.
- Update OS/2 table to version 4: add WPF names name ID 21 and 22 to name table, if needed.
- Updated hinting and vertical metrics in TT files.
- Submitting tthints files.
- Regenerated the TT version to revise the vertical metrics and fix x-height misalignments.
version 2.067 created 2010/07/15
- Fixed outline problems in,
- Bold: y.begin6 - y.begin7 - y.begin8 - K.swash1 - Kcommaaccent.swash1 - d_u - d_uacute - d_udieresis - d_umacron
- Semibold: y.begin6 - y.begin7 - y.begin8 - iogonek.begin2
- Regular: one - onehalf - onequarter - f_r.alt - onesuperior - one.superior - one.inferior - one.numerator - one.denominator
- Removed all double nodes in the Regular font.
- Revised alignment zones and hinting settings.
- Generated TT version.
version 2.066 created 2010/05/12
- Fixed WeightClass value of the Bold font.
- Switched ForceBold to false in the Bold font.
version 2.065 created 2010/01/14
- Corrected font menu names in name table for Mac platform names. Name
- ID's 1,2 16 and 17 are now written following the same rules as the
- Windows platform names. Previous releases put the Preferred Name
- and Style in Mac platform name ID 1 and 2, and did not write name ID
- 16 and 17, for legacy issues with old Mac OS versions.
version 2.050 created 2009/07/28
- Added Windows platform name ID 8 - Manufacturer.
version 2.040 created 2009/02/23
- Compatibilised all three faces, so that all glyphs have the same
- blunted sharp angles.
version 2.020 created 2007/08/20
- Release for FontFolio 11
- 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' from ordinals to these new alternates. Added substitutions to 'sups'.
- Added legacy superior numbers.
- Added glyphs: onesuperior, twosuperior, threesuperior as duplicates of one.superior, two.superior, three.superior.
- Added superior punctuation to 'sups'.
- Added superior alternates to 'sups' feature for punctuation: period, comma, dollar, cent, hyphen, parenleft, parenright.
- Changed two ordinal substitutions in 'ordn'.
- The font contains both a full set of alphabetic superior letters and the two standard ordinals. In the 'ordn' feature, the substitutions from "a" and "o" were changed to "a.superior" and "o.superior" (from "ordfeminine" and "ordmasculine").
- Added legacy f-ligature characters.
- Added glyphs: fi as duplicate of f_i; fl as duplicate of f_l.
- 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.
- Added support for spaces in arbitrary fractions.
- Added glyphs: space.frac, nbspace.frac as new, thin space to harmonize with fraction numerals.
- Added glyph: slash.frac as duplicate of fraction.
- Removed 'percent' and 'perthousand' from arbitrary fraction substitutions in 'frac' feature.
- The inclusion of the characters 'percent' and 'perthousand' among arbitrary fraction substitutions in a 'frac' feature was disruptive in that these glyphs often do not match other fraction numerals.
- Added glyphs "uni021A" and "uni021B".
- Added 'subs' feature, identical to 'sinf' feature.
- Changed ornament glyph names.
- Glyphs which had a base name of 'orn' were changed to a base name of 'bullet' to ensure proper name-to-character mapping.
- Added glyph "i.dot".
- Added glyph "i.dot" as duplicate of glyph "i". Added substitution to 'locl' feature to substitute "i.dot" from "i" in certain languages (e.g. Turkish).
- Added 'locl' feature.
- Added 'locl' feature with Turkish and Serbian substitutions. Added 'locl' feature to 'aalt' coverage.
- Added 'locl' to 'aalt' feature.
- Added locale feature ('locl') to the feature list of the "all alternates" feature ('aalt').
- Renamed litre glyph "afii61289" to "uni2113".
- Changed "uni" names to AGL names.
- Changed four glyph names from "uni" names to "friendly" AGL names: uni015E --> Scedilla; uni0218 --> Scommaaccent; uni015F --> scedilla; uni0219 --> scommaaccent.
- Changed name of glyph "afii61352" (numero) to "uni2116".
- Added 'case', 'zero' and 'hist' features to 'alt' feature list.
- Changed swash glyph names.
- Glyphs which had a base name of "sw" were changed to a base name of "bullet" to ensure proper name-to-character mapping.
- Updated legal notices (trademark and copyright) 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 1.009 created 2004/10/20
- First release as OpenType.
- Some glyphs in the font cannot be accessed unless you are using an OpenType-savvy application.
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