Poetica® 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
Poetica was designed in 1992, and is the first Adobe Originals script typeface; modeled on chancery handwriting scripts developed during the Italian Renaissance. This elegant style of writing formed the basis for italic typefaces and for modern calligraphy. Adobe designer Robert Slimbach captured the vitality and grace of the chancery writing style in this new series of designs. Characteristic of the chancery hand, Poetica contains alternate swash characters, ligatures, and ornamental designs to embellish an otherwise formal script. To represent the variety of form and richness of this hand, Slimbach created alternate alphabets and character sets that include a diverse collection of letterforms.
Menu Names And Style Linking
The fonts in this family have no style links: none are a bold or italic
variant of another.
You should note that selecting a style option such
as bold or italic with any of these faces 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 Poetica Std: version 2.020 created on Thu Aug 16 21:21:53 2007.
version 2.020 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 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 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
- 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 name of glyph "afii61352" (numero) to "uni2116".
- Changed name of glyph "idotaccent.sc" to "i.dotsc".
- Removed numerator glyphs from superiors ('sups') feature.
- Substitutions for numerator punctuation were in both 'sups' and numerator ('numr') features. They remain in 'numr'.
- Corrected numeral width changes in features.
- The glyph "one.fitted" was not being utilized by the layout features. It is the only fitted lining number. Numeral features were changed to utilize this glyph correctly.
- Added smallcap superior alternates.
- Glyphs "asuperior.sc" and "osuperior.sc" were duplicated as "a.superiorsc" and o.superiorsc", respectively.
- Changed glyph names.
- one.scsuperior --> onesuperior.sc; three.scsuperior --> threesuperior.sc; two.scsuperior --> twosuperior.sc.
- Changed glyph names.
- uni2206 --> Delta; uni2126 --> Omega
- Added alternate lslash glyphs.
- Added a new glyph "lslash.alt" with an alternate design to serve regional preferences. Also added a double lslash ligature with the same design. with a supporting ligature substitution in the 'liga' feature.
- Added 'swsh' reference to 'aalt' feature.
- Font has 'swsh' feature which was missing from 'aalt'.
- 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 1.006 created 2003/03/03
- First release as OpenType.
- Some glyphs in the font cannot be accessed unless you are using an OpenType-savvy application.
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