Copperplate Gothic Std Read Me

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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

Originally designed by Frederic W. Goudy in the early 1900s for American Type Founders, Copperplate Gothic appears at first to be a sans serif, but actually has very small, fine serifs. Copperplate Gothic was originally designed for stationery and society printing, and is now used in many varieties of commercial printing. Its classic uses are business cards and lettering on the frosted-glass office doors of lawyers and private investigators. The AB and BC designators refer to the size relationship of the capitals and small capitals.

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 Copperplate Gothic Std: version 2.076 created on Wed Mar 23 15:58:14 2011.

version 2.075 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 2.045 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 2.035 created 2009/07/28

Added Windows platform name ID 8 - Manufacturer.

version 2.020 created 2007/08/08

Release for Adobe^® Font Folio^® 11
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 uppercase 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 uni2215 (divisionslash) to 'slash' context in 'frac' feature.
Added 'smcp' feature to prevent "faux" small caps.
Some applications will create "faux" small caps from lowercase letters for fonts with no 'smcp' feature.
Added a 'smcp' feature with redundant substitutions -- e.g. sub g by g -- to prevent this.
Added 'smcp' reference to 'aalt'.
Renamed all small cap alphabetic glyphs.
Cap-smallcap fonts have a set of glyphs which are duplicates of lowercase characters (which look like small caps). These glyphs had names such as "Asmall", "Bsmall", etc. Names were changed to reflect their being small cap alternates of uppercase characters.
Renamed glyphs: Asmall to A.sc, Bsmall to B.sc, etc.
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.
Changed OS/2.WeightClass from 400 to 800.

version 1.022 created 2002/04/01

First release as OpenType.

Known issues

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

Customer care

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Support Plan Options and Technical Resources
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Other resources

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created 2013 Jan 14