Utopia^® Std

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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

Utopia is an Adobe Originals text face designed by Robert Slimbach in 1989. It combines the vertical stress and pronounced stroke contrast of eighteenth-century Transitional types like Baskerville and Walbaum with contemporary innovations in character shapes and stroke details. Utopia has four weights, plus a titling font and an Expert Collection, all of which combine to make a flexible family of types that is excellent for a range of applications from corporate communications and advertising to book and newspaper publishing.

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:

Utopia Std
Utopia Std Black Headline
Utopia Std Caption
Utopia Std Display
Utopia Std Semibold
Utopia Std Semibold Caption
Utopia Std Semibold Display
Utopia Std Semibold Subhead
Utopia Std Subhead

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 13.0 points
3. Subhead: from 13.0 to 20.0 points
4. Display: from 20.0 to 72.0 points

Patent Notices

D324,063

• UtopiaStd-BoldCaptIt
• UtopiaStd-BoldDispIt
• UtopiaStd-BoldIt
• UtopiaStd-BoldSubhIt
• UtopiaStd-CaptIt
• UtopiaStd-DispIt
• UtopiaStd-Italic
• UtopiaStd-SemiboldCaptIt
• UtopiaStd-SemiboldDispIt
• UtopiaStd-SemiboldIt
• UtopiaStd-SemiboldSubhIt
• UtopiaStd-SubhIt

D317,323

• UtopiaStd-BlackHeadline
• UtopiaStd-Bold
• UtopiaStd-BoldCapt
• UtopiaStd-BoldDisp
• UtopiaStd-BoldSubh
• UtopiaStd-Capt
• UtopiaStd-Disp
• UtopiaStd-Regular
• UtopiaStd-Semibold
• UtopiaStd-SemiboldCapt
• UtopiaStd-SemiboldDisp
• UtopiaStd-SemiboldSubh
• UtopiaStd-Subh

For all fonts of family Utopia Std: version 2.050 created on Thu Aug 16 21:32:53 2007.

version 2.050 created 2007/08/16

• Release for FontFolio 11
• Added legacy superior numbers.
• Added glyphs: onesuperior, twosuperior, threesuperior as duplicates of one.superior, two.superior, three.superior.
• Simplified 'ordn' feature.
• Removed contextual rules from 'ordn' feature. Simplified substitutions.
• 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 uni2215 (divisionslash) to 'slash' context in 'frac' feature.
• 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.small to fi.sc; f_l.small to fl.sc
• Removed languagesystem tags from 'smcp' feature.
• The smallcaps ('smcp') feature had unnecessary exceptions for certain language systems such as Turkish. All language system tags were removed.
• 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 "uni" names to AGL names.
• Changed two glyph names from "uni" names to "friendly" AGL names: uni2190 --> arrowleft; uni2192 --> arrowright.
• Also affects four alternates of these two glyphs.
• Corrected glyph names with PUA Unicode values.
• Glyph with names corresponding to Unicode values in the Private Use Area (e.g. "uniF123") were given descriptive names adhering to Adobe's glyph name conventions.
• Changed PUA uni names to descriptive names.
• Removed inappropriate substitutions from 'case' feature.
• Two substitutions from one distinct character to another were removed: uni2219 (bulletoperator) --> periodcentered; uni00AD (sfthyphen) --> hyphen.
• Renamed glyphs: dotlessi.small --> dotlessi.sc; germandbls.small --> germandbls.sc.
• Added substitution for "currency.oldstyle" to oldstyle numerals ('onum') feature, cap-to-smallcap ('c2sc') feature, and small caps ('smcp') feature.
• Removed substitutions fromo 'case' feature.
• Removed two unnecessary character substitutions from the 'case' feature: uni2219 by periodcentered, and sfthyphen by hyphen.
• Removed inappropriate arrow ligature substitutions.
• Removed discretionary ligature ('dlig') feature which substituted "pseudo-symbol" strings -- hyphen-greater and less-hyphen -- for real arrow characters.
• Changed fsType value in OS/2 table from 12 to 8.
• 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 1.008 created 2002/08/22

• First release as OpenType.

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

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