Blackoak^® Std 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

Blackoak is an Adobe^® Originals typeface designed in 1990 by Joy Redick. Blackoak, adapted from proofs of wood type from the collection at the Smithsonian Institution, has slab serifs and extremely wide letterforms. Used sparingly, Blackoak makes an arresting display type.

Menu Names And Style Linking

The fonts in this family have no style links: none are a bold or italic variant of another.

You should note that selecting a style option such as bold or italic with any of these faces 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.

Release Notes

For all fonts of family Blackoak Std: version 2.067 created on Fri Sep 28 00:54:06 2012.

version 2.067 created 2012/09/28

Added TrueType version.

version 2.066 created 2011/03/23

Added code at end of name ID 3 'Unique Name' to indicate licensing foundry.
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 2.041 created 2009/07/28

Added Windows platform name ID 8 - Manufacturer.

version 2.031 created 2007/06/13

Release for Adobe^® Font Folio^® 11
Added 'ordn' reference to 'aalt'.
Removed majuscule substitutions from 'sups'.
Removed substitutions from majuscule letters to minuscle, superior letters.
Added superior alternates for lowercase a and o.
Added glyphs: a.superior as duplicate of ordfeminine; o.superior as duplicate of ordmasculine.
Changed substitutions in 'ordn' and 'sups' from ordinals to these new alternates.
Added superior alternates for numbers.
Added glyphs: one.superior, two.superior, three.superior as duplicates of onesuperior, twosuperior, threesuperior.
Changed substitutions in 'sups' to use new alternates.
Simplified 'ordn' feature.
Removed contextual rules from 'ordn' feature. Simplified substitutions.
Added f-ligatures for use in 'liga' feature.
Added glyphs: f_i as duplicate of fi; f_l as duplicate of fl.
Changed substitutions in 'liga' to use these new ligatures.
Add new glyphs to appropriate kern classes.
Removed Turkish language lookup from 'liga' feature.
Font character set does not support Turkish, so language exceptions for ligatures are not necessary.
Also, Turkish language feature coverage was not properly specified anyway.
Added uni2215 (divisionslash) to 'slash' context in 'frac' feature.
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 uni2010 (hyphen2).
Added 'size' feature containing a design size value.
Add default language system.
OpenType^® language system coverage for script 'dflt' and language 'DFLT' was added.
First build and release of basic ISOAdobe2 fonts for Library Revision. This is one of a set of fonts which have identical glyph sets and layout features. The following changes were made:
Removed a superfluous '@FIGURES' class.
Removed contextual marks from 'frac' feature, making it a regular ligature substitution.
Duplicated ordfeminine as a.superior, ordmasculine as o.superior.
Simplified 'ordn' feature. Removed context and changed to substitute a->a.superior and o->o.superior.
Added 'ordn' to 'aalt'.
Added a.superior and o.superior to 'sups'.
Renamed several working names in the alias file to match 'font.pfa' names and ensure their ordering in the font.

version 1.018 created 2002/02/07

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
Adobe^® Customer Service provides assistance with product information, sales, registration, and other non-technical issues. To find out how to contact Adobe Customer Service, please visit Adobe.com for your region or country and click on Contact Adobe.

Support Plan Options and Technical Resources
If you require technical assistance for your product, including information on free and paid support options and troubleshooting resources, more information is available at http://www.adobe.com/go/support/. Outside of North America, go to http://www.adobe.com/go/intlsupport/. Font specific resources include the Font Folio and Type Product Help page and the Adobe Type user-to-user forums.

Other resources

Adobe Type Showroom
Index page for all family Read Me files

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created 2013 Jan 14

Blackoak® Std Read Me