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Minimum system requirements
Font installation
Family information
Release Notes
Known issues
Customer care
Other resources
Windows®
Macintosh
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History
In 1975, under license from American Type Founders, International Typeface Corporation commissioned Tony Stan to redraw and extend the Century family. In updating Morris Fuller Benton's design, Stan tightened the letterspacing and increased the x-height. The full ITC Century family consists of four weights and matching italics, plus the eight corresponding condensed faces.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:
ITC Century Handtooled Std Bd
ITC Century Std Book
ITC Century Std Book Cond
ITC Century Std Light
ITC Century Std Light Cond
ITC Century Std Ultra
ITC Century Std Ultra Cond
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 | ||
| ITC Century Handtooled Std Bd | [none] | ITC Century Std Bold | ||
| ITC Century Handtooled Std Bd | Italic | ITC Century Std Bold Italic | ||
| ITC Century Std Book | [none] | ITC Century Std Book | ||
| ITC Century Std Book | Italic | ITC Century Std Book Italic | ||
| ITC Century Std Book | Bold | ITC Century Std Bold | ||
| ITC Century Std Book | Bold, Italic | ITC Century Std Bold Italic | ||
| ITC Century Std Book Cond | [none] | ITC Century Std Book Condensed | ||
| ITC Century Std Book Cond | Italic | ITC Century Std Book Condensed Italic | ||
| ITC Century Std Book Cond | Bold | ITC Century Std Bold Condensed | ||
| ITC Century Std Book Cond | Bold, Italic | ITC Century Std Bold Condensed Italic | ||
| ITC Century Std Light | [none] | ITC Century Std Light | ||
| ITC Century Std Light | Italic | ITC Century Std Light Italic | ||
| ITC Century Std Light Cond | [none] | ITC Century Std Light Condensed | ||
| ITC Century Std Light Cond | Italic | ITC Century Std Light Condensed Italic | ||
| ITC Century Std Ultra | [none] | ITC Century Std Ultra | ||
| ITC Century Std Ultra | Italic | ITC Century Std Ultra Italic | ||
| ITC Century Std Ultra Cond | [none] | ITC Century Std Ultra Condensed | ||
| ITC Century Std Ultra Cond | Italic | ITC Century Std Ultra Condensed Italic | ||
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 ITC Century Std: version 2.081 created on Wed Mar 23 15:57:03 2011.
version 2.081 created 2011/03/23
version 2.051 created 2009/11/23
version 2.041 created 2009/07/28
version 2.031 created 2007/06/13
version 1.018 created 2002/02/07
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Support Plan Options and Technical Resources
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Online Resources
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