Advanced Typography

OpenType fonts may contain more than 65,000 glyphs, unleashing exciting typographic capabilities. Many nonstandard glyphs, such as oldstyle figures, true small capitals, fractions, swashes, superiors, inferiors, titling letters, contextual and stylistic alternates, beginning and ending letterforms, and a full range of ligatures may also be included in a single font. In the past, a typical Western PostScript font was limited to 256 glyphs, forcing you to install and manage two or more style-related fonts in order to access “expert set” characters. OpenType significantly simplifies font management and the publishing workflow by ensuring that all of the required glyphs for a document are contained in one cross-platform font file throughout th....