New OT TTF Office versions
Besides the CFF (PostScript-flavoured) OpenType versions, FontFont are now offering TTF (TrueType-flavoured) OpenType fonts for all those customers who are working with non-OT-savvy applications, for example MS Office applications like Word, Excel, Powerpoint. Those users cannot access OT lay-out features such as alternative figures and small caps as they are built into the “regular” fonts. The new OpenType TTF Office fonts are based on Unicode and contained within one single .ttf file. The fonts are style-linked, i. e. grouped together under a single item in the font menu. The Regular or Roman font can be turned Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic by clicking the appropriate style buttons. The default figure set is Tabular Figures (TF); Small Caps with Oldstyle Figures (OSF) are provided in separate fonts.
The language support corresponds to the OpenType CFF fonts. FontFont Office Standard fonts have at least the character sets for 40 Western languages such as English, French, Spanish, and so on. Office Pro fonts support Western languages plus many other Latin-based languages (Czech, Turkish, Latvian, and so on). Many Office Pro fonts also contain Greek and/or Cyrillic.
ƒStop image 742.009 by Edward McCulloch, from Office Romance
The style-linking, in great demand by Office users, makes it necessary to bundle the respective fonts as they are not properly usable as single fonts. Therefore, new Office FontFonts come in style-linked Sets and Singles where appropriate. A Basic Set always consists of Regular, Regular Italic, Bold and Bold Italic. All the other weights are bundled with their respective Italic companion or, if there is no Italic, are available as Single font. The same rules apply to Small Caps. It is also possible to buy the complete families.
This Search result lists all Office fonts completed so far, with additional families to follow soon. The OpenType CFF versions remain as they are, but all the old PostScript and TrueType versions will removed from the FontFont product range as soon as Office versions become available. This also applies to all the Baltic, CE, Greek, and Cyrillic versions that were produced in the past – they are replaced by the respective Offc Pro versions which combine all available languages, just like the OpenType CFF Pro versions.
New FontFonts
FF Mach™
The very first sketches of FF Mach were drawn in 2004 when a colleague who planned a new Polish magazine about culture and arts asked Łukasz Dziedzic for a logo. As there was neither time nor money, so he did it quickly and for free. The logo was met with approval and Łukasz was asked for some sample covers and a few days later for the whole layout – again immediately and free of charge. Łukasz agreed with mixed feelings, thinking this might be a chance to use some of his fonts and even make a new one based on the logo and title graphics. The new font worked well but unfortunately, after the magazine failed three months later, it was never used again. Łukasz decided in 2008 to redraw all the glyphs in order to remove the traces of that speedy work, and in the end he designed a complete new type family with six weights and three widths.
FF Masala™
Masala is as unctuous as a curry sauce with a hint of chili to add zest. Xavier Dupré’s initial idea for Masala was to offer a casual Sans matching FF Tartine Script. After rethinking and refining, Masala became a truly casual type system with three Sans weights and their Italics plus three powerful Script versions with swashes, perfectly suited for logos and packaging as well as comics or children’s book covers.
FF DIN® Condensed Italic™
The FF DIN super family has been completed with FF DIN Condensed Italic, including Latin Extended and Cyrillic Extended characters. The FF DIN OT/Pro Collections have been upgraded to include all DIN OT/Pro fonts now.
New FontFont OpenType Versions
The FF 50 Release also contains some more OT versions and language extensions of existing FontFonts
• FF Celeste Pro 1 & 2 (with Latin Extd, Greek and Cyrillic)
• FF Celeste Sans Pro 1 & 2 (Latin Extd)
• FF Celeste Small Text Pro (Latin Extd)
• FF Folk OT (now in OpenType)
• FF Prater OT (now in OpenType)
• FF Providence Pro (with Latin Extd and Greek)
• FF Providence Sans Pro (Latin Extd)
The popular FF DIN Pro, FF DIN Pro Condensed, and FF DIN Pro Italic have been upgraded to include now Latin Extended and Cyrillic Extended.
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Now hopefully the Greek FF DIN PRO Condensed will follow soon.
Thanks
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You wrote: "OpenType fonts for all those customers who are working with non-OT-savvy applications, for example MS Office applications like Word, Excel, Powerpoint. Those users cannot access OT lay-out features such as alternative figures and small caps as they are built into the ?regular? fonts. The new OpenType TTF Office fonts are based on Unicode and contained within one single .ttf file."
I'm a bit confused. You mean (Windows) Office users can't use just any OpenType font? They have to buy an OpenType container with TrueType fonts in it?
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Yup; although Microsoft were involved in the development of OpenType they still don't provide adequate support in their own software, believe it or not. :/ If you use OpenType fonts with built-in small caps and different numeral sets and so on Microsoft Office applications will not be able to access those extras. They will behave like plain old regular fonts.
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To avoid any misunderstanding: you CAN use OpenType fonts in Microsoft Office applications. You just won't be able to use the built-in small caps and so on.
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"You just won't be able to use the built-in small caps and so on"
Dear God. You just named one of THE most important features of OpenType.
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