Warnock® Pro


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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

Designed by Robert Slimbach, Warnock Pro is a new Adobe Originals type composition family named after John Warnock, the co-founder of Adobe Systems, whose visionary spirit has led to major advances in desktop publishing and graphic arts software. A full-featured, state-of-the-art OpenType family - with Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek character sets in a variety of weights and optical size ranges-Warnock Pro is a classic yet contemporary composition family that performs a wide variety of typographic tasks with elegance.

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:

Warnock Pro
Warnock Pro Caption
Warnock Pro Display
Warnock Pro Light
Warnock Pro Light Caption
Warnock Pro Light Display
Warnock Pro Light Subhead
Warnock Pro SmBd
Warnock Pro SmBd Caption
Warnock Pro SmBd Display
Warnock Pro SmBd Subhead
Warnock Pro Subhead

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
Warnock Pro [none] Warnock Pro Regular
Warnock Pro Italic Warnock Pro Italic
Warnock Pro Bold Warnock Pro Bold
Warnock Pro Bold, Italic Warnock Pro Bold Italic
Warnock Pro Caption [none] Warnock Pro Caption
Warnock Pro Caption Italic Warnock Pro Italic Caption
Warnock Pro Caption Bold Warnock Pro Bold Caption
Warnock Pro Caption Bold, Italic Warnock Pro Bold Italic Caption
Warnock Pro Display [none] Warnock Pro Display
Warnock Pro Display Italic Warnock Pro Italic Display
Warnock Pro Display Bold Warnock Pro Bold Display
Warnock Pro Display Bold, Italic Warnock Pro Bold Italic Display
Warnock Pro Light [none] Warnock Pro Light
Warnock Pro Light Italic Warnock Pro Light Italic
Warnock Pro Light Caption [none] Warnock Pro Light Caption
Warnock Pro Light Caption Italic Warnock Pro Light Italic Caption
Warnock Pro Light Display [none] Warnock Pro Light Display
Warnock Pro Light Display Italic Warnock Pro Light Italic Display
Warnock Pro Light Subhead [none] Warnock Pro Light Subhead
Warnock Pro Light Subhead Italic Warnock Pro Light Italic Subhead
Warnock Pro SmBd [none] Warnock Pro Semibold
Warnock Pro SmBd Italic Warnock Pro Semibold Italic
Warnock Pro SmBd Caption [none] Warnock Pro Semibold Caption
Warnock Pro SmBd Caption Italic Warnock Pro Semibold Italic Caption
Warnock Pro SmBd Display [none] Warnock Pro Semibold Display
Warnock Pro SmBd Display Italic Warnock Pro Semibold Italic Display
Warnock Pro SmBd Subhead [none] Warnock Pro Semibold Subhead
Warnock Pro SmBd Subhead Italic Warnock Pro Semibold Italic Subhead
Warnock Pro Subhead [none] Warnock Pro Subhead
Warnock Pro Subhead Italic Warnock Pro Italic Subhead
Warnock Pro Subhead Bold Warnock Pro Bold Subhead
Warnock Pro Subhead Bold, Italic Warnock Pro Bold Italic Subhead

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 1.0 to 8.9 points
  2. Body Text: from 8.9 to 12.9 points
  3. Subhead: from 12.9 to 22.9 points
  4. Display: from 22.9 to 99.9 points

Patent Notices

D454,152


Release Notes

For all fonts of family Warnock Pro: version 2.035 created on Thu Aug 16 21:36:30 2007.

version 2.035 created 2007/08/16

version 1.010 created 2000/07/19

Known issues

Customer care

Customer Service
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Support Plan Options and Technical Resources
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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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