Blue Island™ Std

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Minimum system requirements
Font installation
Family information
Release Notes
Known issues
Customer care
Other resources

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.

For information on installing these fonts, see http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_fontinstall_en.

History

British designer Jeremy Tankard began Blue Island in 1996 with the idea of creating a completely ligature-based roman typeface--an original but complex task that took until 1999 to realize. Individually, Blue Island's letters can appear a bit dismembered; but when set together, they are clearly transformed into words, words that fall in waves down the page. Successfully balancing readability with intriguing decorative forms, Blue Island is especially effective for titling. As for its romantic name, Blue Island is the title of a poem, also by Tankard, which also evokes notions of freedom, escape, intrigue, and the undulating beauty of the sea.

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.

Patent Notices

D419,590

• BlueIslandStd

For all fonts of family Blue Island Std: version 2.040 created on Thu Aug 16 13:57:53 2007.

version 2.040 created 2007/08/16

• 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.
• Changed glyph name "uniF638" to "zero.slash".
• Changed fsType value in OS/2 table from 12 to 8.
• 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.
• Corrected path direction in glyphs "Agrave", "Egrave", "Igrave", "Ograve" and "Ugrave".

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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