Fairfield™ Std

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

Fairfield is a fifty-year-old typeface that has had a recent facelift. Rudolph Ruzicka, artist and book illustrator, designed light and medium weights of Fairfield for Linotype in 1940 and 1949, respectively. For Fairfield’s 1991 release as an electronic typeface, designer Alex Kaczun added bold and heavy weights. With its straight, unbracketed serifs and abrupt contrast between thin and thick strokes, Fairfield harks back to the modern typefaces of Bodoni and Didot, but has a distinctly twentieth-century look. Fairfield is a fine text face, both for books and shorter texts. Kaczun added small capitals and old style figures, swash capitals, and a set of “caption” typefaces (sloped roman style) that were inspired by Matthew Carter's extensions to Oldstyle 7 for National Geographic magazine.

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:

Fairfield LT Std Caption Heavy
Fairfield LT Std Caption Light
Fairfield LT Std Caption Medium
Fairfield LT Std Heavy
Fairfield LT Std Light
Fairfield LT 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.

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 Fairfield LH Std: version 2.040 created on Thu Aug 16 20:39:02 2007.

version 2.040 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 numbers.
• Added glyphs: one.superior, two.superior, three.superior as duplicates of onesuperior, twosuperior, threesuperior.
• Changed substitutions in 'sups' to use new alternates.
• Added legacy superior numbers.
• Added glyphs: onesuperior, twosuperior, threesuperior as duplicates of one.superior, two.superior, three.superior.
• 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.
• 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 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.
• Removed redundant small cap substitutions.
• Removed substitutions from 'smcp' and 'c2sc' in which the alternate is identical: ampersand, exclam, question, exclamdown, questiondown.
• Mostly found in Linotype expert fonts, with old style currency glyphs and small cap punctuation.
• 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
• Removed redundant old style substitutions.
• Removed substitutions from 'onum', 'lnum', 'smcp', 'c2sc' and 'aalt' in which the alternate is identical.
• 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.
• Fixed a bug in 'onum' where fitted old style figures were being substituted from tabular lining figures.
• Changed the substitution to substitute tabular old style figures instead of fitted old style figures.
• 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.
• Removed redundant substitutions from layout features.
• Some swash alternates are not different from their base glyphs, and have been removed from layout features. (These glyph remain in the font for compatibility reasons.)

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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