For example, a Helvetica TrueType font appears as “Helvetica (TT),” a Helvetica PostScript Type 1 font appears as “Helvetica (T1),” and a Helvetica OpenType font appears as “Helvetica (OTF).” If two fonts have the same PostScript name and one includes.dfont in its name, the other font is used. Composite You can turn off the preview feature or change the point size of the font names or font samples in Type preferences.ĭuplicate fonts are listed in the menus with their font technologies abbreviated in parentheses.The following icons are used to indicate different kinds of fonts: You can view samples of a font in the font family and font style menus in the Character panel and other areas in the application from where you can choose fonts. Typically, the Roman or Plain (the actual name varies from family to family) member of a font family is the base font, which may include type styles such as regular, bold, semibold, italic, and bold italic. A type style is a variant version of an individual font in a font family. Typefaces (often called type families or font families) are collections of fonts that share an overall appearance, and are designed to be used together, such as Adobe Garamond. A font is a complete set of characters-letters, numbers, and symbols-that share a common weight, width, and style, such as 10‑pt Adobe Garamond Bold.
