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Adobe western and Japanese OpenType fonts may contain an expanded character set for enhanced linguistic support and advanced typographic control. Below are descriptions of the different kinds of glyphs that may be found in Adobe OpenType fonts.
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Basic
Includes a basic glyph complement containing uppercase letterforms, lowercase letterforms, figures, accented characters, and punctuation. These fonts also contain currency symbols (cent, dollar, euro, florin, pound sterling, yen), standard ligatures (fi, fl), common fractions (1/4, 1/2, 3/4), common mathematics operators, superscript numerals (1,2,3), common delimiters and conjoiners, and other symbols (including daggers, trademark, registered trademark, copyright, paragraph, litre and “estimated” symbol). For an example of this glyph collection, please refer to the Glyph Complement PDF for Century Oldstyle Std Regular.
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Euro
Includes the new euro currency symbol, which represents the standard currency in 11 European Union member countries. Most Adobe OpenType fonts also include symbols for cent, dollar, florin, pound sterling and yen. Some Adobe OpenType fonts may also include the symbols for the colon, franc, lira, peseta, and rupiah. Some Adobe OpenType fonts also include oldstyle versions of most of the monetary symbols which are designed to be compatible with the oldstyle figures.
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Ligatures
Ligatures are designed to correct awkward combinations where letters may collide. This font contains an extended set of ligatures beyond the basic “fi” and “fl” ligatures found in most fonts. These special ligatures can include “Th”, “ss”, “ffl”, “tt” and other special letter combinations. Some fonts, such as Silentium Pro, also include a unique set of uppercase ligatures that impart a liveliness to the letterforms.
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Small Caps
These letterforms are smaller versions of the normal capitals and are designed to be visually compatible with the lowercase characters of a typeface. They can be used to introduce the first few words at the beginning of a story, or to highlight key words within text. They are also commonly used when setting acronyms or abbreviations, such as FBI, IRS or MADD, in text.
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Oldstyle figures
These figures are designed with ascenders and descenders and have features and proportions compatible with the lowercase characters of the typeface. Oldstyle figures, also known as hanging figures, are typically used for text settings because they blend in well with the optical flow and rhythm of the lowercase alphabet. Fonts with oldstyle figures include both proportional and tabular versions.
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Proportional Lining Figures
Most fonts include lining figures that are designed to be compatible with the capital letters. They are usually capital height or slightly smaller and are typically designed with the same widths, also known as tabular widths. Tabular lining figures are especially useful when setting columns of number, such as in financial reports. Fonts with proportional lining figures also include a set of lining figures that have unique widths that are determined by the shape of the figure. Proportional lining figures are preferred when setting certain text, such as an all-capital headline.
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Diagonal Fractions
Theses fonts include an expanded set of the most commonly used diagonal fractions beyond 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4 and may include additional fractions such as 1/8, 3/8, 5/8, 7/8, 1/3, and 2/3. Some Adobe OpenType fonts also support the creation of arbitrary fractions.
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Superscript/Subscript
Superior and inferior figures, also known as superscript and subscript letterforms, are used for footnote references, chemical compounds, and as mathematical exponents.
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Ordinals and Superior Letters
These fonts contain superior letterforms that are used when creating ordinals, which specify position in a numbered series, and in certain English, French and Spanish abbreviations, such as Madame, compagnie, and segundo.
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Swashes
Swash capitals, which originated in the italic handwriting of the Italian Renaissance, were adapted as letterforms during the early sixteenth century. Since then, swash letters have evolved along with new handwriting and typeface styles. Swash capitals can be used effectively for expressive passages of text, or for titles and signage when an elegant touch is called for.
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Alternates
Several fonts include additional ligatured forms, alternate lowercase letters, and lowercase within uppercase combined forms. The alternate forms were designed to give words a slightly more animated and informal appearance and to lend more interest to type composition. Because of their decorative quality, they are best used in moderation.
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Titling Capitals
Titling capitals are specially designed letterforms, such as ornate, inline, white-stroked or refined versions of regular capitals, designed for use in all-capital settings or as initial capitals. Titling capitals also have specific letterspacing that lends itself to all-capital settings. Fonts with titling capitals may also include specially designed figures, monetary symbols, related punctuation, and accented characters for use with the titling capitals. Reversed titling capitals can be used as initial forms in book chapters or related paragraphs.
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Ornaments
Throughout history, type designers have created printer’s ornaments to accompany their typefaces. These ornaments add a personal signature to the type family and can be used as title page decoration, paragraph markers, dividers for blocks of text, or as repeated bands and borders. Common ornaments include flowers, leaves, bullets, brackets, and contemporary graphic decorations.
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Case Forms
These fonts contain special alternate letterforms and punctuation with a distinct design and spacing for use in all-capital text settings.
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Historic Blackletter
These fonts contain additional historic glyphs that allow users to follow the conventions for setting historical German and blackletter text.
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Standard Japanese
This font provides basic functional coverage for Japanese, offering kana, kanji, Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, punctuation, and other symbols. Most of these fonts conform to the Adobe-Japan 1-3 character collection, though most Heisei fonts do not include the IBM Selected Kanji (about 360 kanji).
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Kana-only
This font contains only the basic set of kana (hiragana and katakana), and some additional punctuation and symbols. There are no kanji characters included in this font. It is based on the Kana subset of the Adobe-Japan 1-3 character collection.
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JIS 78
This font contains JIS78 (JIS C 6226-1978) kanji variants.
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JIS 83
This font contains JIS83 (JIS X 0208-1983) kanji variants.
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Traditional
This font contains traditional, or unsimplified, forms of kanji glyphs, as set forth in JIS standards and the Joyo (“in common use”) Kanji specification.
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Expert
This font contains expert forms of kanji glyphs defined by Fujitsu and supported in their computer systems.
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Japanese Ligatures
This font contains kana, kanji, and Latin ligature forms designed specifically for Japanese use.
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Japanese Glyph Variants
This font contains thousands of alternate forms or variations of standard kanji glyphs (also known as “itaiji”), along with variants for other non-kanji characters.
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Ruby
This font contains special glyphs that serve to annotate kanji and assist readers in correctly pronouncing the kanji. Ruby glyphs include the complete set of kana specially designed for such a purpose, along with some special punctuation glyphs.
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Annotated Forms
This font contains kana, kanji, numerals, and Latin glyphs that are annotated or enclosed with periods, parentheses, circles, black circles, squares, black squares, rounded squares, and black-rounded squares. These glyphs are often used as bullets in enumerated lists, for emphasis, or as abbreviations.
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Stacked Fractions
This font contains a significant set of “nut” or “stacked” fractions that feature a horizontal bar separating the numerator and denominator.
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Directional Kana
This font contains additional kana glyphs that are designed and positioned specifically for horizontal or vertical writing.
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True Italic
This font contains a complete set of genuine italic glyphs (as opposed to slanted or obliqued glyphs) for the Latin characters in a Japanese font.
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Greek
This font supports the characters for normal Greek text.
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Greek polytonic
This font supports the characters for historical Greek text (as used until 1950), as well as normal contemporary forms.
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Cyrillic
The Cyrillic alphabet was reformed by Peter the Great in Russia in the early eighteenth century. Fonts that include a Cyrillic character set support the following languages: Russian, Adyg, Avarish, Balkarian, Belorussian, Bulgarian, Chechen, Darginish, Ingushian, Kabardino-Cherkesian, Kumykish, Lakish, Lesginian, Macedonian, Mordovsko-Ersatian, Mordovsko-Mokshanian, Nanaish, Nenish, Nivkh, Nogaian, Selkup, Serbian, Tabasaranish, and Ukrainian.
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Adobe CE
Fonts with an Adobe CE character set extension include the characters necessary to support the following central European languages: Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, and Turkish.
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Pr6N Japanese
These fonts are based on the Adobe-Japan1-6 character collection (23,058 glyphs), which includes a large number of glyph variants. Fonts based on this character collection provide complete support for all of the latest JIS Standards.
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Japanese 2004
These fonts are based on the Adobe-Japan1-3 character collection (9,354 glyphs), which includes a small number of glyph variants, and also includes a small number of additional glyphs to make the fonts JIS2004- savvy. Fonts based on this character collection provide complete support for JIS X 0208, along with JIS78 (JIS C 6226-1978) variants and IBM Selected Kanji.
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Korean
Fonts based on the Adobe-Korea1-2 character collection support Korean, and contain 18,352 glyphs. All 11,172 hangul, 4,620 hanja (Chinese characters), and a complete set of symbols and punctuation are included. The KS X 1001:1992 standard is supported in its entirety.
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Hangul
These fonts contain a subset of the Adobe-Korea1-2 character collection, and specifically exclude the 4,620 hanja glyphs. All 11,172 hangul, along with a complete set of symbols and punctuation, are included.
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