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Minimum system requirements
Font installation
Family information
Release Notes
Known issues
Customer care
Other resources
Windows®
Macintosh
For information on installing these fonts, see http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_fontinstall_en.
History
As a student in Zurich, Adrian Frutiger began work on Univers, which would eventually be released in 1957 by the Deberny & Peignot foundry in Paris. The design is a neo-grotesque, similar to its contemporary, Helvetica. With the release of Univers, Frutiger began using numbers rather than names to designate variations of weight, width, and slope. The full Univers family consists of twenty-one typefaces, and Frutiger has used this numerical system on other designs, including Serifa and Frutiger. Linotype also has adopted this numerical system for many other faces. All twenty-one Univers faces were designed to work together, so they can be mixed in a variety of ways. Their legibility lends itself to a large variety of applications, from text and headlines to packaging and signage.
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:
Univers LT Std 39 Thin UltraCn
Univers LT Std 45 Light
Univers LT Std 47 Cn Lt
Univers LT Std 49 Light UltraCn
Univers LT Std 53 Extended
Univers LT Std 55
Univers LT Std 57 Cn
Univers LT Std 59 UltraCn
Univers LT Std 73 Black Ext
Univers LT Std 85 XBlk
Univers LT Std 93 XBlk Ext
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 | ||
| Univers LT Std 39 Thin UltraCn | [none] | Univers Std 39 Thin Ultra Condensed | ||
| Univers LT Std 45 Light | [none] | Univers Std 45 Light | ||
| Univers LT Std 45 Light | Italic | Univers Std 45 Light Oblique | ||
| Univers LT Std 45 Light | Bold | Univers Std 65 Bold | ||
| Univers LT Std 45 Light | Bold, Italic | Univers Std 65 Bold Oblique | ||
| Univers LT Std 47 Cn Lt | [none] | Univers Std 47 Light Condensed | ||
| Univers LT Std 47 Cn Lt | Italic | Univers Std 47 Light Condensed Oblique | ||
| Univers LT Std 47 Cn Lt | Bold | Univers Std 67 Bold Condensed | ||
| Univers LT Std 47 Cn Lt | Bold, Italic | Univers Std 67 Bold Condensed Oblique | ||
| Univers LT Std 49 Light UltraCn | [none] | Univers Std 49 Light Ultra Condensed | ||
| Univers LT Std 53 Extended | [none] | Univers Std 53 Extended | ||
| Univers LT Std 53 Extended | Italic | Univers Std 53 Extended Oblique | ||
| Univers LT Std 53 Extended | Bold | Univers Std 63 Bold Extended | ||
| Univers LT Std 53 Extended | Bold, Italic | Univers Std 63 Bold Extended Oblique | ||
| Univers LT Std 55 | [none] | Univers Std 55 Roman | ||
| Univers LT Std 55 | Italic | Univers Std 55 Oblique | ||
| Univers LT Std 55 | Bold | Univers Std 75 Black | ||
| Univers LT Std 55 | Bold, Italic | Univers Std 75 Black Oblique | ||
| Univers LT Std 57 Cn | [none] | Univers Std 57 Condensed | ||
| Univers LT Std 57 Cn | Italic | Univers Std 57 Condensed Oblique | ||
| Univers LT Std 59 UltraCn | [none] | Univers Std 59 Ultra Condensed | ||
| Univers LT Std 73 Black Ext | [none] | Univers Std 73 Black Extended | ||
| Univers LT Std 73 Black Ext | Italic | Univers Std 73 Black Extended Oblique | ||
| Univers LT Std 85 XBlk | [none] | Univers Std 85 Extra Black | ||
| Univers LT Std 85 XBlk | Italic | Univers Std 85 Extra Black Oblique | ||
| Univers LT Std 93 XBlk Ext | [none] | Univers Std 93 Extra Black Extended | ||
| Univers LT Std 93 XBlk Ext | Italic | Univers Std 93 Extra Black Extended Oblique | ||
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 Univers Std: version 2.020 created on Wed Jun 13 16:36:02 2007.
version 2.020 created 2007/06/13
version 1.029 created 2002/06/05
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