Utopia (typeface)
Adobe Systems | |
Date released | 1989 |
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Shown here | Utopia Regular |
Utopia is the name of a transitional
Design
Utopia qualifies as a transitional serif typeface: one based on 18th- and early-19th-century ideals of classical design. Adobe's release notes cite Baskerville and Walbaum as influences, and Adobe's Sumner Stone has also compared it to Hermann Zapf's Melior.[2][3] It was one of the first typefaces to be part of Adobe's Originals programme, designed to feature a large range of styles for professional use. With a reasonably solid design, Utopia was sometimes used by newspapers.
Current versions of the typeface are released in the
Free software release
Uniquely for Adobe's professional typefaces, a basic set of Utopia's styles has been open-sourced by Adobe, allowing it to be used for free. This comprises regular, italic, bold and bold italic styles of the regular size, with 229 glyphs for each, including ligatures but not small capitals. Adobe donated the Utopia typeface (in the form of
The OpenType version that Adobe now distributes commercially was modified from the open-sourced PostScript fonts, and Adobe does not guarantee that the font metrics are the same.
Initial donation to the X Consortium
There was controversy around the license regarding the status of the font files as
Derived typefaces
The original Utopia typeface has, since being released as free software, been modified to support
Another further development of the original was made by Andrey V. Panov, in an
From the Heuristica font family, Andreas Nolda[11] created Utopia Nova font family in 2015, changing this reserved name to Lingua Franca[12] OpenType and Web Open Font Format fonts in 2016. Andreas Nolda added proportional figures and a stylistic set with longer slashes, matching the parentheses in height and depth to Lingua Franca OpenType and Web Open Font Format fonts.
In 2016 Stefan Peev[13] created Linguistics Pro font family[14] as a fork of Nolda's Utopia Nova. Linguistics Pro contains two models of Cyrillic glyphs. The base range of the Cyrillic glyphs (uni0410:uni044F) represents the modern Bulgarian letterform model.[15] The traditional Cyrillic letterform model is included as a local feature for Russian language and as a Stylistic Set 01. Stylistic Set 02 is for Serbian and Macedonian texts (in Regular and Bold variants) and for Serbian texts in Italic and Bold Italic variants. Stylistic Set 03 is for Macedonian texts (in Italic and Bold variants). Linguistics Pro also contains polytonic Greek.
Lawsuit
From 1995 to 1997, Adobe filed several complaints against Southern Software, Inc. regarding the latter company's use of the Utopia font, under the name "Veracity", in its products. In 1998, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California ruled in favor of Adobe, finding that Southern Software, Inc.'s font software infringed Adobe's copyright. Although typefaces are held to be unprotectable by copyright under United States copyright law, the court found that the control points used by the font software to generate the typeface were protectable.
References
- ^ "Read Me". Adobe.com. Retrieved 2011-08-04.
- ^ Shaw, Paul (10 February 2011). "Overlooked Typefaces". Print magazine. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
- ^ Riggs, Tamye. "The Adobe Originals Silver Anniversary Story: Stone, Slimbach, and Twombly launch the first Originals". Adobe Typekit. Adobe Systems. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
- ^ "SOTA Typography Award Honors Robert Slimbach". SOTA. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
- ^ Paul Asente, from Adobe, stating the availability of Utopia for use with the X Window System [1]
- ^ Karl Berry, Announcement of sublicensing of Utopia, without restrictions [2]
- ^ "[texhax] Re: question re. the license of Adobe Utopia". tug.org. 2005-09-21. Retrieved 2011-08-04.
- ^ As a side effect of the fact that Adobe distributed the fonts as free software, improvements and extra features can be incorporated to the font—and have already been done so with software like FontForge.
- ^ "Các tin đáng chú ý". vntex.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2011-08-04.
- ^ "evristika - Heuristica is extended version of Adobe Utopia font". Retrieved 2011-08-04.
- ^ Nolda, Andreas. "Andreas Nolda [Software]".
- ^ "Lingua Franca". FontLibrary.org.
- ^ Devroye, Luc. "Context Ltd [Stefan Peev]".
- ^ "Linguistics Pro". FontLibrary.org.
- ^ "What shall be done for Bulgarian Cyrillic .loclBGR". Lettersoup.de. 8 July 2016.
External links
- Adobe's current professional release of Utopia in optical sizes
- Adobe's standard release of Utopia, without optical sizes
- Adobe's licensing page for Utopia for website use
- Utopia available for free download (note: these are .pfafiles and may require conversion to be installable on your system)
- Ghostscript release in otf and ttf formats
- Utopia open-source license