Non-Designer’s Type Book, The, Second Edition

OpenType Fonts are Smart

When you use OpenType in an application that knows what to do with it, you’ll find that OpenType fonts are “smart.” That is, they automatically substitute characters that are more appropriate in particular typographic situations.

For instance, when you set type in all caps, OpenType adds the appropriate amount of baseline shift so characters such as hyphens and parenthesis fit better (see Chapter 7).

In a script face, glyphs might change depending on whether the character is at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of a word. In a handwriting font, OpenType can automatically use different glyphs for the same characters so the set text more closely resembles handwriting.

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