Arno™ Pro Read Me

This document contains late-breaking product information, updates, and troubleshooting tips.

Minimum system requirements and font installation instructions
Font versions
Family information
Release Notes
Known issues
Customer care
Other resources

Minimum system requirements and font installation instructions

For information on minimum system requirements and font installation, see http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_fontinstall_en.

Font versions

To check that you have the correct font file, compare the font version of your font file to the font version provided in the Release Notes section below.

Family information

History

As a multi-featured OpenType^® font format family, with the most extensive Latin-based glyph complement Adobe has yet offered, Arno offers extensive pan-European language support, including Cyrillic and polytonic Greek. The family also offers such typographic niceties as five optical size ranges, extensive swash italic sets, and small capitals for all covered languages.

Menu Names And Style Linking

In many Windows^® applications, instead of every font appearing on the menu, fonts are grouped into style-linked sets, and only the name of the base style font for a set is shown in the menu. The italic and the bold weight fonts of the set (if any) are not shown in the font menu, but can still be accessed by selecting the base style font, and then using the italic and bold style buttons. In this family, such programs will show only the following base style font names in the menu:

Arno Pro
Arno Pro Caption
Arno Pro Display
Arno Pro Light Display
Arno Pro SmText
Arno Pro Smbd
Arno Pro Smbd Caption
Arno Pro Smbd Display
Arno Pro Smbd SmText
Arno Pro Smbd Subhead
Arno Pro Subhead

The other fonts in this family must be selected by choosing a menu name and then a style option following the guide below.

On the Mac OS operating system, although each font appears as a separate entry on the font menu, users may also select fonts by means of style links. Selecting a base style font and then using the style links (as described above for Windows applications) enhances cross-platform document compatibility with many applications, such as Microsoft Word and Adobe PageMaker^® software, although it is unnecessary with more sophisticated Adobe applications such as recent versions of Illustrator^®, Photoshop^® or InDesign^® software.

One should not, however, select a base font which has no style-linked variant, and then use the bold or italic styling button. Doing so will either have no effect, or result in programmatic bolding or slanting of the base font, which will usually produce inferior screen and print results.

Optical Sizes

Typefaces with optical size variants have had their designs subtly adjusted for use at specific point size ranges.

Please see Adobe Type - Optical Sizes for a current discussion of the uses of optical sizes.

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. The objective of optical sizing is to maintain the integrity and legibility of the underlying typeface design throughout a range of point sizes. The adjustments typically made to the design to optimize it for different sizes are: for larger point sizes, the space between characters (letter fit) tightens, the space within characters (counterforms) closes up (i.e., the letters are slightly more condensed), the serifs become finer and the stroke contrast becomes greater, the overall weight becomes lighter, and the x-height gradually diminishes; for smaller point sizes, opposite adjustments are made. 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, for example. These adjustments can improve the legibility of intermediate point sizes further if there is a greater change in design at smaller sizes than at larger sizes. For example, the difference in design between Caption and Regular optical sizes, which usually have a difference in intended usage size of only 4-8 points, is often almost as much as the difference between the regular and display sizes, which usually have a difference of 10-60 points.

Although any of the fonts may be used at any size, the intended point sizes for the designs of this family are:

1. Caption: from 5.9 to 8.5 points
2. SmText: from 8.5 to 10.9 points
3. Body Text: from 10.9 to 14.0 points
4. Subhead: from 14.0 to 21.5 points
5. Display: from 21.5 to 72.0 points

Release Notes

For all fonts of family Arno Pro: version 1.140 created on Thu Oct 18 14:06:56 2012.

version 1.140 created 2012/10/18

• Rebuilt fonts with new MakeOTF version.

version 1.139 created 2012/10/10

• Added TrueType versions for the remaining faces.

version 1.138 created 2012/06/15

• Rebuilt to fix a bug in the coverage table format 2 of contextual
• substitutions. This had no effect on layout, but did cause some font
• validators to complain.

version 1.088 created 2011/11/07

• New TTF: Semibold Italic
• New hints/ppms: all existing Italic TTFs

version 1.085 created 2011/06/25

• TrueType fonts now have the same vertical metrics as the OpenType^® fonts.
• This release includes only 5 faces: Bold, Bold Italic, Italic, Regular, Semibold

version 1.084 created 2011/03/23

• Fixed outline error in 'ya' (in upright fonts), regenerated OTFs and TTFs (only five fonts)

version 1.073 created 2011/02/03

• Updated trademark string.
• Added code at end of name ID 3 'Unique Name' to indicate licensing foundry.
• This version of the fonts updates the glyph shapes of Tcedilla/tcedilla and
• related glyphs.

version 1.057 created 2010/12/01

• Updating hinting parameters in CFF and TTF fonts.

version 1.055 created 2010/11/23

• Updated hinting zones.
• Submitting TTF fonts and auxiliarry files.

version 1.054 created 2010/11/16

• Remove deprecated ForceBold keyword from CFF table.
• Update OS/2 table to version 4: add WPF names name ID 21 and 22 to name table, if needed.

version 1.039 created 2010/04/21

• Adjusted the BlueScale value in all the fonts.
• Removed two bottom zones (OtherBlues & FamilyOtherBlues) that were causing rasterization problems (see tops of letters v,w,x,y of ArnoPro-Regular at 36pt).
• Corrected the FamilyBlues & FamilyOtherBlues values to be the same across fonts of the same sub-family.
• Rehinted all the fonts.

version 1.038 created 2009/11/23

• Corrected font menu names in name table for Mac platform names. Name
• ID's 1,2 16 and 17 are now written following the same rules as the
• Windows platform names. Previous releases put the Preferred Name
• and Style in Mac platform name ID 1 and 2, and did not write name ID
• 16 and 17, for legacy issues with old Mac OS versions.

version 1.028 created 2009/09/2

• Aligned the dot on the 'j' with the dot on the 'i'. This change also affected the following glyphs: je, ij, Lj, lj, Nj, nj.

version 1.027 created 2009/07/28

• Added Windows platform name ID 8 - Manufacturer.

version 1.012 created 2008/12/8

• Release for Adobe^® Font Folio^® 11.
• Update legal strings.
• Updated legal notices (trademark and copyright) for accuracy. Amended, changed and deleted as necessary. Ensured 'Notice' field in CFF fontinfo dictionary is the union of copyright and trademark notices in OTF 'name' table.
• Added 'greekapostrophe' (Watson #1917341 and #1496048) - glyph added to layout features and kerning classes
• Fixed 'quotesinglebase' and 'quotedblbase' (Watson #1693233)
• Fixed 'ellipsis' (Watson #1693234)
• Change BlueScale to 12 (from 10) (Watson #1464296) -- Note: Baseline zone of Italic Light Caption master had to be reduced to 20 (from 25)
• Changed final name 'mu.b' (mu.swash) to 'u03BC.b'
• Changed the advanced width of the two combining accents circumflexcomb (uni0302) and tildecomb to 0 (zero)
• Added sfthyphen.cap and bulletoperator.cap and changed 'case' feature to use them -- glyphs also added to kerning classes
• Corrected (Alpha|Eta|Epsilon|Omicron|Omega|Upsilon|Iota)acute to match (Alpha|Eta|Epsilon|Omicron|Omega|Upsilon|Iota)tonos, in the roman fonts
• Changed optical size range of SmText fonts to only go up to 10.9pt (instead of 11pt)
• and changed optical size range of Text fonts to start after 10.9pt (instead of 11pt)
• Added positive kerning between quotes to address the issue reported at http://typophile.com/node/39130#comment-239928

version 1.011 created 2007/01/10

• First release as OpenType.

Known issues

• Some glyphs in the font cannot be accessed unless you are using an OpenType compatible application.

Customer care

Customer Service
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Support Plan Options and Technical Resources
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Other resources

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