Kepler^® Std

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Minimum system requirements
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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

Named after the German Renaissance astronomer, Kepler is a contemporary type family created by Adobe type designer Robert Slimbach in the tradition of classic modern 18th-century typefaces. Traditionally, modern typefaces are known for their cool intellectual quality, but Slimbach's Kepler captures the modern style in a humanistic manner. It is elegant and refined with a hint of oldstyle proportion and calligraphic detailing that lends it warmth and energy.

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:

Kepler Std
Kepler Std Capt
Kepler Std Cn Disp
Kepler Std Cn Subh
Kepler Std Disp
Kepler Std Ext
Kepler Std Ext Capt
Kepler Std Ext Disp
Kepler Std Ext Subh
Kepler Std Light
Kepler Std Light Capt
Kepler Std Light Cn Disp
Kepler Std Light Cn Subh
Kepler Std Light Disp
Kepler Std Light Ext
Kepler Std Light Ext Capt
Kepler Std Light Ext Disp
Kepler Std Light Ext Subh
Kepler Std Light Scn
Kepler Std Light Scn Capt
Kepler Std Light Scn Disp
Kepler Std Light Scn Subh
Kepler Std Light Subh
Kepler Std Medium
Kepler Std Medium Capt
Kepler Std Medium Cn Disp
Kepler Std Medium Cn Subh
Kepler Std Medium Disp
Kepler Std Medium Ext
Kepler Std Medium Ext Capt
Kepler Std Medium Ext Disp
Kepler Std Medium Ext Subh
Kepler Std Medium Scn
Kepler Std Medium Scn Capt
Kepler Std Medium Scn Disp
Kepler Std Medium Scn Subh
Kepler Std Medium Subh
Kepler Std Scn
Kepler Std Scn Capt
Kepler Std Scn Disp
Kepler Std Scn Subh
Kepler Std Subh

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.

Optical Sizes

Typefaces with optical size variants have had their designs subtly adjusted for use at specific point size ranges.

Please see Adobe Type - Optical Sizes for a current discussion of the uses of optical sizes.

This capability reintroduces one of the features of hand-cut metal type, which uses a separate font for each point size and is often optically adjusted. This is an advantage over the current common practice of scaling a single digital type design to different point sizes, which may reduce legibility at smaller sizes or sacrifice subtlety at larger sizes. The objective of optical sizing is to maintain the integrity and legibility of the underlying typeface design throughout a range of point sizes. The adjustments typically made to the design to optimize it for different sizes are: for larger point sizes, the space between characters (letter fit) tightens, the space within characters (counterforms) closes up (i.e., the letters are slightly more condensed), the serifs become finer and the stroke contrast becomes greater, the overall weight becomes lighter, and the x-height gradually diminishes; for smaller point sizes, opposite adjustments are made. Smaller optical sizes are also useful when output resolution is very limited, such as for on-screen display. One might choose to use a smaller optical size design for creating text on buttons for a Web page, for example. These adjustments can improve the legibility of intermediate point sizes further if there is a greater change in design at smaller sizes than at larger sizes. For example, the difference in design between Caption and Regular optical sizes, which usually have a difference in intended usage size of only 4-8 points, is often almost as much as the difference between the regular and display sizes, which have a usually difference of 10-60 points.

Although any of the fonts may be used at any size, the intended point sizes for the designs of this family are:

1. Caption: from 6.0 to 8.9 points
2. Body Text: from 8.9 to 13.9 points
3. Subhead: from 13.9 to 23.0 points
4. Display: from 23.0 to 72.0 points

For all fonts of family Kepler Std: version 2.020 created on Mon Aug 20 14:03:09 2007.

version 2.020 created 2007/08/21

• 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 '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 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Renamed litre glyph "afii61289" to "uni2113".
• Changed non-AGL names to "uni" names.
• Any glyph names which do not adhere to Adobe's glyph name conventions were changed to "uni" names.
• 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.

version 1.009 created 2003/03/17

• First release as OpenType.

• Some glyphs in the font cannot be accessed unless you are using an OpenType-savvy application.

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