OpenType® fonts offer creative professionals typographic flexibility that has to be experienced.

OpenType fonts are cross-platform compatible, making it simple to deploy fonts enterprise-wide and to achieve consistent results. OpenType fonts are capable of containing up to 65000 glyphs compared to 256 for PostScript® fonts. This means a single font file may contain the glyphs to support many languages, special characters and expert sets such as swashes, small capitals, ligatures and titling letters. Ultimately less font files to deal with, means simpler font management and a more streamlined publishing workflow.

From a design perspective, the true power of OpenType is unleashed when you use OpenType fonts with applications that fully support OpenType features. Such design applications present a user interface which allows you to access alternate glyphs and to select and apply different text layout features to achieve the best typographic results.

Check the support that your design application provides for OpenType. You will be able to access the standard PostScript glyph set with any design application, but you will not be able to take full advantage of the added functionality it affords until you upgrade or switch to an OpenType compliant application.

Consider the benefits:

• OpenType supports all your users, whether they work on Macintosh® or PC platforms.
• OpenType fonts can contain all the available glyph sets for a typeface in one font file giving you wider linguistic support and greater typographic control.
• OpenType enables all users to access the same fonts for better consistency.
• OpenType helps the production process flow smoothly with less opportunity for version clashes, font naming issues and other technical faults.

The Monotype Library, OpenType Edition

Gill Sans® Pro from Monotype

Monotype OpenType Pro

The Adobe Type Collection, OpenType Edition