- Adobe Jenson
Infobox font
name = Adobe Jenson
style =Serif
date =1996
based_on =Nicolas Jenson
creator =Robert Slimbach
foundry =Adobe Type Adobe Jenson is an old style serif
typeface drawn forAdobe Systems by type designerRobert Slimbach . Its Roman styles are based on a Venetian oldstyle text face cut byNicolas Jenson in 1470, and its italics are based on those byLudovico Vicentino degli Arrighi . The result is an organic, somewhat idiosyncratic font, with a low x-height, and inconsistencies that help differentiate letters to make it a highly readable typeface appropriate for large amounts of text.Adobe Jenson was first released in 1996 as a multiple master Postscript font, and is now sold as an
OpenType font under the name Adobe Jenson Pro. The multiple master version included weight and optical size axes.Adobe Jenson Pro
Adobe Jenson Pro is an OpenType update of the original family. The font family supports Adobe CE, ISO-Adobe (later Adobe Western 2), dingbat character sets. The family comes with 4 weights each in roman and italic, and 4 optical sizes. Supported OpenType features include Stylistic alternates, ligatures, proportional numbers, old style figures, small caps, subscripts and superscripts, ordinals, and swashes (italic fonts only).
References
*"Adobe Jenson Specimen Book".
Adobe Systems Incorporated , 1996.External links
* [http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/P/P_1715.html Jenson Pro]
* [http://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?store=OLS-US&event=displayFontPackage&code=1716 Adobe Jenson Pro Opticals]
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