Written by Brendan on October 29, 2008 at 7:18 pm

In Adobe InDesign next to every font name is a small symbol that designates the type of font that it is. These font types include OpenType, True Type and PostScript. The newest, most modern of these is OpenType. 

The open type font standard was created in an effort to establish an open system for developing high quality, cross platform, multi-language fonts. Development began in 1994 by Microsoft and Adobe joined the effort in 1996 and by 2006, the entire Adobe font library was translated into the language.

One of the benefits of an OpenType font is that it will support up to 65,536 Glyphs. These allow a font to have many different styles, as well as small caps and oldstyle fonts.

Over the next couple of weeks, in this blog we will be exploring the different features of these fonts and looking at examples of how they are used. Please feel free to comment with the different ways that you have used the fonts in your creative endeavors.