OpenType Features

 

OpenType fonts can include an expanded character set for providing broader linguistic support and OpenType Features for a better and more precise typographic use. OpenType is a cross-platform font format and meanwhile with its possible features also almost fully supported by Microsoft programs such as Windows, Office 2010, on Mac in Office 2011, TextEdit, Pages, Keynote etc. All standard graphic design applications, like Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Figma, Affinity, QuarkXPress etc., fully support the OpenType format.

 

Features

With the OpenType Features you have additional typographic functions and features such as, for example, additional ligatures, small caps, to change default figures to tabular lining figures or proportional lining figures, old style figures, superscript, pre-composed fractions as well as stylistic alternates. Divided in Stylistic Sets you can activate alternative glyphs by selecting the appropriate ‘Stylistic Set’ in InDesign, or ‘Stylistic Alternates’ in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.

The fonts contain different stylistic sets — to see what’s available for each family take a look on the relevant typeface page in the section Technicals under OpenType Features and Stylistic Sets.