Font support
Introduction
We have a long experience in font technology and always carefully test our fonts before adding them to the retail collection. Despite long procedures, we can’t reproduce each potential context of use of our fonts. Specific projects on custom fonts for our clients greatly helped us to improve testing processes. Each case can thus be different, and you perhaps discovered a tangible problem with our fonts.
This section should already offer several tips about how the fonts should be installed and what kind of problems you might encounter. Typically, when you have a problem, try to reproduce your problem with another application, installing the font directly (without any font management software), or with another font of the same font format, or with another computer. Problems can occur because of various copies of the same font in your computer, so check the font caches as proposed on the dedicated section.
In the end, if you still have problems, please contact us. Don’t forget to be precise about your system configuration, applications versions, font versions, date of purchase, and eventually some examples.
PTF fonts updates
Note to Porchez Typofonderie customers: feel free to ask a free “update by email” of most of PTF font packs you have previously purchased. For upgrades from one format to another, please to the dedicated page. Hereafter is the current status of the PTF font families:
OpenType Ptf fonts:
Allumi PTF—1.0 September 2009
Costa PTF—3.02 March 2009
Le Monde Courrier PTF—2.0 March 2008
Le Monde Journal PTF—2.1 March 2008
Le Monde Livre PTF—2.1 March 2008
Le Monde Sans PTF—2.1 October 2009
Parisine PTF—1.0 June 2006
Parisine Office PTF—2.0 March 2009
Parisine Plus PTF—1.01 February 2006
OpenType Std fonts:
Ambroise Std—1.0 April 2008
Angie Sans Std—1.0 April 2008
Apolline Std—1.0 April 2008
Anisette Std—1.0 April 2008
Anisette Std Petite—1.0 April 2008
Costa Std—1.0 March 2009
Le Monde Courrier Std—1.0 April 2008
Le Monde Livre Std—1.0 April 2008
Le Monde Livre Classic Std—1.0 April 2008
Le Monde Journal Std—1.0 April 2008
Le Monde Sans Std—1.0 April 2008
Parisine Std—1.0 April 2008
Parisine Plus Std—1.0 April 2008
PostScript Type 1 fonts (upgrades stalled):
Ambroise—1.0 April 2001
Angie Sans—1.2 September 1999
Apolline—2.4 January 2003
Anisette—2.1 November 2003
Anisette Petite—1.1 November 2003
Le Monde Journal—1.7 December 2001
Le Monde Journal Ipa—1.0 December 2003
Le Monde Sans—1.6 July 2000
Le Monde Livre—1.7 December 2001
Le Monde Courrier—1.6 July 2000
Le Monde Livre Classic—1.6 July 2000
Parisine—1.1 November 2001
Parisine Windows—1.2 January 2008
Parisine Plus—1.1 December 2001
Custom fonts (various formats):
Dereon—1.0 April 2005
Henderson Serif—1.0 April 2007
Henderson Sans—1.0 April 2007
Macif—1.0 November 2007
Mencken Head—1.0 September 2005
Mencken Text—1.0 September 2005
Parisine Office—1.2 September 2005
Basic font namings glossary
Standard (fonts or versions) Generally fonts with standard character set; lowercases, capitals, figures and so on, 256 glyphs in total.
SC or Caps (fonts) Fonts with smaller caps designed to match the size of the lowercases in place of the lowercases, and naturally the standard capitals as usual. In most of the case, the figures are OsF but tabular. Standard character set; small caps, capitals, OsF figures and so on, 256 glyphs in total.
Two widths caps (fonts or versions) Generally fonts with standard character set but instead of lowercases positions on keyboard you have condensed capitals when on capitals positions on keyboard you have the large capitals. Anisette use that configuration.
Tabular lining (fonts) Standard fonts generally provide what we call tabular lining figures. With such figures you can align them vertically, as in annual reports for example.
Lining (fonts) Standard fonts generally provide what we call tabular figures, but in some cases, they can be Lining but non tabular, such on Anisette.
Tabular OsF (fonts) Fonts with Old style figures or lowercases figures in place of the standard lining or capitals figures. Standard character set; lowercases, capitals, OsF figures and so on, 256 glyphs in total. In some cases, OsF tabular figures in Le Monde are in the SC versions when the lining tabular figures are in Standard fonts and Non tabular figures are in OsF fonts.
Non tabular OsF (fonts) Fonts generally provide what we call non tabular (Old style figures). Such figures display well in text setting, as in books. As example, OsF non-tabular figures in Le Monde are in the OsF fonts.
Alternates, Expert (fonts) Generally, you will find alternates glyphs, characters, figures, such ligatures, final forms, etc. that we can’t include on standard fonts for compatibilty reasons. The shortcuts to access the alternates forms depend of the family and your platform. Less than 256 glyphs, mostly the first level of the keyboard.
Ligatures Some ligatures are designed to correct awkward combinations of letters, such f and i. Special ligatures are provided simply for esthetic reasons such s and t.
Swashes forms appeared during sixteenth century, notably in typefaces from Garamond, Granjon, etc. Generally, swashes are ornemented italics capitals, by extension it can be today any letterforms with an ornemental effect.
Ornaments or Vignettes (fonts) In some cases, such on Ambroise family, the Ornaments or Vignettes are on the Alternates fonts, on others cases on a specific font called of the same name. They generally include glyphs only positionned on the superior level, roughly, on the position of caps, lowercases, figures and basic punctuations.
