What does "Std" means?

alfonzo
21.Apr.2007 1.56am
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Hi,

Some fonts have “Std” added to its name. Where does it stand for?

Thanx,
Fons



Ralf Herrmann
21.Apr.2007 3.01am
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It stands for »Standard«. It is used for OpenType fonts that only have a standard set of glyphs, like Mac Roman, Win 1252 and so on.

Ralf


John Nolan
21.Apr.2007 7.13am
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Generally, Adobe’s “Std” fonts lack the extended language support that you find in their “Pro” fonts.

Nevertheless, they are not necessarily limited to a small glyph set. Depending on the font, they may have many glyphs more than you’d expect: for example, Poetica is a “Std” face, but has a great number of alternate glyphs, Kepler is Std, but has ornaments, small caps and swashes.