Lithos® Pro


This document contains late-breaking product information, updates, and troubleshooting tips.

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

Minimum system requirements

Windows®

Macintosh

Font installation

For information on installing these fonts, see http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_fontinstall_en.

Family information

History

Inscriptions honoring public figures or dedicating temples were intended for public viewing in ancient Greece. Geometric letterforms, free of adornment, were chiseled into the stone. These very basic shapes are the inspiration for Lithos Pro, an Adobe Originals typeface designed by Carol Twombly. This flexible design combines simplified character shapes with a playful asymmetric quality that works well for a large variety of display jobs. The original Lithos design has been extremely popular since its 1989 release. To meet user demand, Lithos Pro, released in 2000, adds true Greek language support, plus small caps and small figures.

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:

Lithos Pro Extra Light
Lithos Pro Light
Lithos Pro Regular

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
Lithos Pro Extra Light [none] Lithos Pro Extra Light
Lithos Pro Light [none] Lithos Pro Light
Lithos Pro Light Bold Lithos Pro Bold
Lithos Pro Regular [none] Lithos Pro Regular
Lithos Pro Regular Bold Lithos Pro Black

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.

Release Notes

For all fonts of family Lithos Pro: version 2.066 created on Fri Dec 17 17:52:43 2010.

version 2.066 created 2010/12/17

version 2.046 created 2009/11/23

version 2.036 created 2009/07/28

version 2.020 created 2007/08/16

version 1.021 created 2000/08/22

Known issues

Customer care

Customer Service
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Support Plan Options and Technical Resources
If you require technical assistance for your product, including information on free and paid support options and troubleshooting resources, more information is available at http://www.adobe.com/go/support/. Outside of North America, go to http://www.adobe.com/go/intlsupport/. Free troubleshooting resources include Adobe’s support knowledgebase, Adobe user-to-user forums and more.

Other resources

Online Resources
Adobe Type Showroom
Adobe Type Showroom - all current Read-Me files for our font families
User Forums




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