Adobe "Garamond Premier Pro Opticals" Open-Type Font Family
Size: 5.8MB
Description:
Typeface Notes
"Garamond Premier Pro Opticals" had its genesis in 1988 when Adobe senior type designer Robert Slimbach visited the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp, Belgium, to study their collection of Claude Garamond's metal punches and type designs. Garamond, a French punchcutter, produced a refined array of book types in the mid-1500s that combined an unprecedented degree of balance and elegance, and stand as a pinnacle of beauty and practicality in typefounding.
While fine-tuning "Adobe Garamond" (released in 1989) as a useful design suited to modern publishing, Slimbach started planning an entirely new interpretation of Garamond's designs based on the large range of unique sizes he had seen at the Plantin-Moretus, and on the comparable italics cut by Robert Granjon, Garamond's contemporary. By modeling "Garamond Premier Pro Opticals" on these hand-cut type sizes, Slimbach has retained the varied optical size characteristics and freshness of the original designs, while creating a practical 21st-century type family.
The "Garamond Premier Pro Opticals" family contains an extensive glyph complement, including central European, Cyrillic and Greek characters, and is offered in five weights ranging from light to bold.
About Optical Sizes
The optical size variants of "Garamond Premier Pro" have had their designs subtly adjusted for use at specific point size ranges. 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. 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, or when doing a presentation intended for on-screen display, for example.
OpenType Layout Feature Highlights
The most prominent OpenType layout features in the "Garamond Premier Pro Opticals" family are: small caps, oldstyle figures, ligatures (regular, discretionary, and contextual), stylistic alternates, historical alternates, fractions, superiors, inferiors (subscript), case alternates, beginning and ending forms, ornaments, and "all alternates." Note that the choice of which OpenType features are supported is specific to each application.
Supported Languages
Abyssinian, Adygeish, Afrikaans, Avarish, Balkarian, Belorussian, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chechen, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Darginish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Greek (contemporary and classical), Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Ingushian, Irish, Italian, Kabardino-Cherkesian, Kumykish, Lakish, Latvian, Lesginian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Maltese, Mordovsko-Ersatian, Mordovsko-Mokshanian, Nanaish, Nenish, Nivkh, Nogaian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sami, Selkup, Serbian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tabasaranish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh, and others.
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Adobe "Garamond Premier Pro Opticals" Open-Type Font Family
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