Dante® 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
Giovanni Mardersteig started work on Dante after the Second World War, when printing at the Officina Bodoni returned to full production. He drew on his experience of using Monotype Bembo and Centaur to design a new book face with an italic which worked harmoniously with the roman. Originally hand-cut by Charles Malin, it was adapted for mechanical composition by Monotype in 1957. The new digital version has been redrawn, by Monotype's Ron Carpenter, free from any restrictions imposed by hot metal technology. It was issued in 1993 in a range of three weights with a set of titling capitals, and is now available from Adobe. Dante is a beautiful book face which can also be used to good effect in magazines and periodicals.
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:
Dante MT Std
Dante MT Std Medium
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 |
| Dante MT Std | | [none] | | Dante MT Std Regular |
| Dante MT Std | | Italic | | Dante MT Std Italic |
| Dante MT Std | | Bold | | Dante MT Std Bold |
| Dante MT Std | | Bold, Italic | | Dante MT Std Bold Italic |
| | | | | |
| Dante MT Std Medium | | [none] | | Dante MT Std Medium |
| Dante MT Std Medium | | Italic | | Dante MT Std Medium 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 Dante MT Std: version 2.040 created on Thu Aug 16 21:28:32 2007.
version 2.040 created 2007/08/16
- Release for FontFolio 11
- Removed majuscule substitutions from 'ordn'.
- Removed substitutions from majuscule letters to minuscle, superior letters.
- Added legacy superior numbers.
- Added glyphs: onesuperior, twosuperior, threesuperior as duplicates of one.superior, two.superior, three.superior.
- Added superior punctuation to 'ordn'.
- Added superior alternates to 'ordn' feature for punctuation: period, comma, dollar, cent, hyphen, parenleft, parenright.
- 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.
- 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.
- Added support for punctuation in arbitrary fractions.
- Added substitutions and contextual rules to 'frac' feature for existing small punctuation: period, comma, dollar, cent, hyphen, parenleft, parenright.
- 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.
- Moved punctuation from 'sinf' to 'dnom'.
- Small punctuation with the ".inferior" name suffix are actually positioned to align with denominator figures, not inferior figures. Substitutions from default forms to these glyphs were removed from 'sinf' and added to 'dnom'.
- Added superior punctuation to 'numr'.
- Small punctuation with the ".superior" name suffix align with both superior letters and numerator figures. Substitutions from default forms to these glyphs were added to 'numr'.
- Added punctuation alternates to 'numr' and 'dnom'.
- Added numerator and denominator alternates to 'numr' and 'dnom' features for punctuation: period, comma, dollar, cent, hyphen, parenleft, parenright.
- Added small cap alternate for dotlessi.
- Added glyph: dotlessi.sc as duplicate of i.sc.
- Added dotlessi substitution to 'smcp' feature.
- Substitute dotlessi by dotlessi.sc.
- Renamed small cap f-ligatures.
- Fonts only need small cap alternates for single-character, legacy f-ligatures, fi and fl.
- Renamed glyphs: f_i.sc to fi.sc; f_l.sc to fl.sc
- Added 'subs' feature, identical to 'sinf' feature.
- Changed name of uni2014.alt to emdash.alt.
- Added access to 'one.taboldstylealt' glyph in DanteMTStd font features.
- Added substitution from 'one.taboldstyle' in 'salt' feature.
- Modified alternate substitutions in Dante italic fonts.
- Removed substitution to 'g_g.alt' from 'salt' feature. The substitution occurred before 'liga' and would not happen.
- Expanded rules in 'liga' so that 'g' followed by either 'g' or 'g.alt' is substituted by 'g_g'.
- Expanded rules in 'liga' so that 'g.alt' followed by either 'g' or 'g.alt' is substituted by 'g_g.alt'.
- Renamed titling glyphs in DanteMTStd (Regular).
- The names of some titling alternates did not correctly reflect their base characters.
- Renamed glyphs: one.superiortitling to onesuperior.titling, two.superiortitling to twosuperior.titling, three.superiortitling to threesuperior.titling, f_i.titling to fi.titling, f_l.titling to fl.titling
- Added superior titling numerals to DanteMTStd-Regular.
- Added superior titling alternates for one, two and three.
- Applying 'titl' and 'sups' features to these numbers should result in superior titling alternates. These glyphs were duplicated from the existing legacy characters onesuperior.titling, etc.
- Added corresponding substitutions to 'sups' feature.
- Moved 'titl' feature in DanteMTStd-Regular.
- Moved 'titl' feature in DanteMTStd-Regular to occur first (after 'aalt') to allow all titling alternates to precede other layout features.
- Previously, some features such as 'sups' were not addressed in the late-occurring 'titl' feature, and would prevent certain alternates from being accessed.
- The titling alternates are essentially an entire alternate font, so those glyphs should not interact with other layout features.
- 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.
- Added a stylistic alternates feature ('salt') to accommodate alternate oldstyle "one" glyphs.
version 1.047 created 2003/05/15
- First release as OpenType.
- Some glyphs in the font cannot be accessed unless you are using an OpenType-savvy application.
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