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OpenType fonts

OpenType iconOpenType is a cross-platform font format developed by Adobe and Microsoft. This format provides advanced typographic features such as multilingual character sets, ligatures, small capitals, various numeral styles, and contextual substitutions.

OpenType, as the new industry standard, supports Unicode, which enables the fonts to contain a large number of characters. While PostScript fonts are limited to a maximum of only 256 characters, OpenType fonts can have more than 65,000. This means that a user does not need to have separate fonts for Western, Central European, Baltic, Cyrillic or Greek languages, but could have one single file which supports all these encodings.

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multilingual fonts

Typotheque offers two kinds of OpenType fonts:

—OpenType Std
Fonts supporting Latin-based languages, including Western, Central and Eastern European languages, with eight different numeral styles, inferior and superior forms, case sensitive forms, arrows, pictograms, and more. See the complete list of 44 languages that Typotheque OpenType Std fonts support.

OpenType Std fonts

—OpenType Pro
 In addition to the features OpenType Std offers, Typotheque Pro fonts include support for Cyrillic and Greek (including Polytonic or Ancient Greek), and their small capitals. See the list of all 71 languages that Typotheque OpenType Pro supports.

OpenType Pro fonts

OpenType fonts work in all applications; however only some applications take advantage of the advanced OpenType features. See the list of applications which currently support OpenType. Other applications will only use the first 256 characters (like Western PostScript fonts).