Letter Gothic Std Read Me

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Minimum system requirements and font installation instructions
Font versions
Family information
Release Notes
Known issues
Customer care
Other resources

Minimum system requirements and font installation instructions

For information on minimum system requirements and font installation, see http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_fontinstall_en.

Font versions

To check that you have the correct font file, compare the font version of your font file to the font version provided in the Release Notes section below.

Family information

History

Letter Gothic was designed by Roger Roberson for IBM sometime between 1956 and 1962. Inspired by Optima, the typeface originally had flared stems. A monospaced sans serif font designed for use on an IBM Selectric typewriter, Letter Gothic is a good choice for tabular material.

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 are not shown, and 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:

Letter Gothic Std

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
Letter Gothic Std	[none]	Letter Gothic Std Medium
Letter Gothic Std	Italic	Letter Gothic Std Slanted
Letter Gothic Std	Bold	Letter Gothic Std Bold
Letter Gothic Std	Bold, Italic	Letter Gothic Std Bold Slanted

On the Mac OS operating system, 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 applications) enhances cross-platform document compatibility with many applications, such as Microsoft Word and Adobe^® PageMaker^® software, although it is unnecessary with more sophisticated Adobe applications such as recent versions of Illustrator^®, Photoshop^® or InDesign^® software.

One should not, however, select a weight which has no style-linked variant or is itself a style-linked variant, and then additionally 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.

Release Notes

For all fonts of family Letter Gothic Std: version 2.059 created on Wed Jun 29 18:37:10 2011.

version 2.058 created 2011/06/29

Centered the outline of glyphs onesuperior, twosuperior, threesuperior, fraction and uni2215 within the advanced width, in Bold and Bold Oblique fonts.
Revised the hinting settings.
Made small adjustments to various glyphs to make them snap to the alignment zones.
Generated TT version.

version 2.057 created 2011/03/23

Added code at end of name ID 3 'Unique Name' to indicate licensing foundry.
Added the Indian Rupee character to all four fonts.
Edited the Euro, Yen, and Sterling characters in all fonts to better harmonize the weights of the monetary bars.

version 2.046 created 2010/11/16

Remove deprecated ForceBold keyword from CFF table.
Update OS/2 table to version 4: add WPF names name ID 21 and 22 to name table, if needed.

version 2.031 created 2009/07/28

Added Windows platform name ID 8 - Manufacturer.

version 2.015 created 2007/08/16

Release for Adobe^® Font Folio^® 11
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 'dlig' feature.
Font character set does not support Turkish, so ligature exceptions for ligatures are not necessary.
Also, Turkish language feature coverage was not properly specified anyway.
Added deutschmark ligature to 'dlig'.
The "D_M" glyph, for deutschmark, has no character code, and is expressed instead as a ligature. This ligature substitution was added to 'dlig'.
Added uni2215 (divisionslash) to 'slash' context in 'frac' feature.
Added eighth fractions to 'frac'.
Added substitutions for prebuilt fractions, oneeighth, threeeighths, fiveeighths and seveneighths to 'frac' feature.
Deleted glyph "uni2014".
The font had two glyphs, "emdash" and "uni2014" which map to the same character, and which were identical, or nearly so. Glyph "uni2014" was deleted. Glyph "emdash" remains, mapped to U+2014.
Renamed litre glyph "afii61289" to "uni2113".
Renamed "nsuperior" as "n.superior".
Renamed math and symbol glyphs from "uni" names to their equivalent AGL names. For example, uni2261 --> equivalence; uni25CB --> circle.
Renamed "uniF638" to "zero.slash".
Added 'zero' feature.
Added 'zero' feature with substitution for zero to zero.slash.
Changed name of glyph "SM700000" to "filledrect" and mapped Unicode value U+25AC to it.
Changed fsType value in OS/2 table from 12 to 8.
Updated legal notices (trademark and copyright) 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 1.020 created 2002/03/03

First release as OpenType.

Known issues

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

Customer care

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