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Documentation: Whitney Font Family

Available Formats

Whitney is available for both Macintosh and Windows, and each download includes all available font formats for your operating system, as listed below. Users licensing fonts for two or more computers may choose to download software for both platforms.

	Contents
Macintosh	OpenType fonts Macintosh PostScript fonts
Windows	OpenType fonts Windows PostScript fonts
Both1	OpenType fonts Macintosh PostScript fonts Windows PostScript fonts

See also: Technical specifications for OpenType and PostScript fonts

Character Set

Whitney is available in the three editions Basic, Advanced, and Pro, each containing a progressively larger set of styles and characters. Each of these editions is available in one of three alphabets: the standard Latin-X™ character set, Greek, or Cyrillic-X™. The Whitney Multiscript package integrates Pro editions of all three alphabets into a single set of OpenType fonts. A complete list of languages appears below.

	Whitney Basic	Whitney Advanced	Whitney Pro
Letters	Capitals Lowercase	Capitals Lowercase Roman Small Caps2 Italic Small Caps2	Capitals Lowercase Roman Small Caps2 Italic Small Caps2
Numbers	Lining Figures	Lining Figures Old-Style Figures	Lining Figures Old-Style Figures Tabular Lining Figures Fractions Numerators Denominators Superscripts5 Subscripts5
Special Characters	Stylistic Alternates	Stylistic Alternates Contextual Punctuation	Stylistic Alternates Contextual Punctuation Extended Monetary Tabular Monetary Tabular Commercial Tabular Math Numerical Indices Alphabetic Indices2

Font Features

Whitney’s character set is differently arranged in PostScript and OpenType versions of the fonts. OpenType fonts always provide the fullest access to any font’s features, when used in supporting applications.⁷

	PostScript	OpenType
Accents	Latin-1 accents are accessible from the keyboard	Both Latin-1 and Latin-X5 accents are accessible from the keyboard6
Small Caps3	Provided in the auxiliary "Small Caps" font for each style	Activated by the "Small Caps" OpenType feature7
Lining Figures3	Provided as the default in each upper- and lowercase font style	Provided as the default in each font style, or activated by the "Proportional Lining" OpenType feature7
Old-Style Figures	Provided as the default in each auxiliary "Small Caps" font	Activated by the "Proportional Oldstyle" OpenType feature7
Tabular Figures4	Provided as the default in each auxiliary "Numeric" font	Activated by the "Tabular Lining Figures" OpenType feature7
Indices	Provided as the "Whitney Index" family. Double-digit indices can be produced by selecting one of the four "Index Condensed" styles, and typing from the keyboard, using the shift key to indicate the right half of a pair6	Provided as the "Whitney Index" family. Double-digit indices can be produced by selecting one of the four "Index Light" styles, activating the "Contextual Alternates" OpenType feature7, and typing two characters
Fractions4	Fifteen pre-built fractions are included in the auxiliary "Numeric" font for each style, and can be selected manually from the glyph palette, or accessed from the keyboard under remote key positions6	All possible fraction combinations are automatically inserted inline once the "Fractions" OpenType feature is activated7
Numerators & Denominators4	Provided in the auxiliary "Numeric" font for each style, and can be selected manually from the glyph palette, or accessed from the keyboard under remote key positions6	Activated by the "Numerator" and "Denominator" OpenType features7
Superscripts & Subscripts	Superscript 1, 2, and 3 in standard positions	Full set of super- and subscripts are activated by the "Superior" and "Inferior" OpenType features4,7
Ligatures	Whitney’s non-colliding lowercase f obviates the need for f-ligatures, but the ligatures fi, fl, ff, ffi, and ffl are included for backward-compatibility	Whitney’s non-colliding lowercase f obviates the need for f-ligatures, but the ligatures fi, fl, ff, ffi, and ffl are included for backward-compatibility
Stylistic Alternates	Many alternate characters can be selected manually from the glyph palette, or accessed from the keyboard under remote key positions6	All alternate characters are included, and can be activated by the "Stylistic Alternates"7 or "Stylistic Sets"8 OpenType features, or selected manually from the glyph palette
Extended Monetary4	Provided in the auxiliary "Numeric" font for each style, and can be selected manually from the glyph palette, or accessed from the keyboard under remote key positions6	Accessible from the glyph palette, or from the keyboard under appropriate localizations6
Contextual Punctuation3	Small cap punctuation is provided as the default in each auxiliary "Small Cap" font	Small cap punctuation is activated by the "All Small Caps" OpenType feature7
Tabular Symbols4	Provided in the auxiliary "Numeric" font for each style, and can be selected manually from the glyph palette, or accessed from the keyboard under remote key positions6	Activated by the "Tabular Lining Figures" OpenType feature7

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Stylistic Sets

Whitney contains the following Stylistic Sets, available to users of OpenType fonts within supporting applications.⁸

	Description	Behavior
01	Flat Terminals2	Flattens the angled ends of non-projecting strokes Affects capital and small cap A, E, F, G, K, L, Q [alternate], R, T, V, W, W [alternate], X, Y, Z, Æ, Œ, and their accents; lowercase f, k, t, v, w, x, y, z, and their accents; figures 2, 3 [regular and alternate], 4 [alternate], 5, and 7 in all forms as applicable (old-style, lining, tabular, fractions, superior/inferior, numerator/denominator, fractions); ampersand, exclamation marks, guillemets, brackets, parentheses, braces, registered symbol, trademark symbol, number sign, percent sign, sterling, Euro, yen, sheqel, naira, peso, won, rupiah, and rupee in all forms (lining, small cap, and tabular, as applicable); ordinal a and o
08	Alternate g9 (italic)	Substitutes the ‘two-storey’ lowercase g in italic styles Affects lowercase g and related accents
09	Alternate a9 (italic)	Substitutes the ‘two-storey’ lowercase a in italic styles Affects lowercase a and related accents
10	Alternate M9	Substitutes the ‘flat-sided’ capital M Affects capital and small cap M, trademark symbol, and servicemark symbol
11	Alternate Q9	Substitutes the ‘non-descending’ capital Q Affects capital and small cap Q
12	Alternate U9	Substitutes the ‘asymmetric’ capital U Affects capital and small cap U, and related accents
13	Alternate W9	Substitutes the ‘intersecting’ capital W Affects capital and small cap W, and related accents
14	Alternate g9 (roman)	Substitutes the ‘single-storey’ lowercase g in roman styles Affects lowercase g and related accents
15	Alternate 39	Substitutes the ‘flat-topped’ figure 3 Affects lining and old-style figure 3
16	Alternate 49	Substitutes the ‘open-topped’ figure 4 Affects lining figure 4
17	Curly quotes3,7	Substitutes the ‘curled’ quotes Affects the comma, semicolon, single quotes, double quotes, and baseline quotes
18	Large ®9	Substitutes the full-height registered symbol
19	Cyrillic alternates7,8	Substitutes ‘straight-legged’ variants of curved Cyrillic letters Affects the Д, Л, Љ, д, л, and љ in all romans; Д, Л, and Љ in all italics

See also: Working with Whitney’s Stylistic Sets.

Language Support

Whitney’s Basic, Advanced, and Pro editions are available in any of three alphabets. Fonts with H&FJ’s standard Latin-X™ character set support the principal languages of Western and Central Europe, the Americas, and Australia. Fonts with the Cyrillic-X™ character set support the principal languages of Russia, Eastern Europe, the Baltic states, and most of the former Soviet Socialist Republics. Fonts with the Greek character set support the Greek language. The Whitney Multiscript package contains the complete range of available languages.

	Languages Supported
Whitney Latin-X™	Afaan Oromo, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Aragonese, Arapaho, Arrernte, Asturian, Aymara, Basque, Bislama, Blackfoot, Bosnian5, Breton, Catalan5, Cebuano, Chamorro5, Cheyenne5, Cimbrian, Corsican, Croatian5, Czech5, Dalecarlian, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, Gallegan, Genoese, German, Glosa, Guarani5, Haitian Creole, Hawaiian5, Hiligaynon, Hmong Daw, Hopi, Hungarian5, Ibanag, Icelandic, Ilokano, Indonesian, Interlingua, Irish, Irish Gaelic, Istro-Romanian5, Italian, Japanese transliteration5, Jèrriais, Kapampangan, Kashubian5, Kiribati, Koongo, Korean transliteration5, Kurdish5, Ladin (Gardena)5, Ladin (Valle di Badia)5, Languedocien, Latin5, Latvian5, Lithuanian5, Lojban, Lombard, Low Saxon, Lower Sorbian5, Luxembourgeois, Macedo-Romanian5, Malagasy, Malay (Latinized), Maltese5, Manx, Maori5, Marshallese5, Megleno-Romanian5, Míkmaq5, Mohawk, Montenegrin (Latinized)5, Náhuatl5, Naxi (Latinized), Norfolk/Pitcairnese5, Norwegian, Nyanja5, Occitan, Oromo, Pangasinan, Papiamento, Pedi, Piedmontese, Polish5, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Quechua, Romanian5, Romansch, Rotokas, Rundi, Saint Lucia Creole5, Inari Sami5, Lule Sami5, Samoan, Sardinian, Scots Gaelic, Serbian (Latinized)5, Seychelles Creole, Shona, Sicilian, Slovak5, Slovene5, Somali, Sorbian5, South Ndebele, Southern Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swati, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tausug, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tongan, Tswana, Turkish5, Turkmen (Latinized)5, Tuvalu, Upper Sorbian5, Uyghur (Latinized)5, Veps, Volapük5, Votic, Walloon, Walpiri, Welsh5, Xhosa, Zhuang, and Zulu
Whitney Cyrillic-X™3,8	Abaza, Adyghe, Aghul, Archi, Avar, Azeri, Bashkir, Belarusan, Bosnian (Cyrillized), Bulgarian, Russia Buriat, Chechen (Cyrillized), Chuvash, Crimean Turkish, Dargwa, Dungan, Erzya, Ingush, Juhuri, Kabardian, Kalmyk, Karachay-Balkar, Kazakh, Khalkha (Cyrillized), Kirghiz, Komi, Komi-Permyak, Kumyk, Lak, Lezgi, Macedonian, Hill Mari, Meadow Mari, Moksha, Moldovan (Cyrillized), Mongolian, Montenegrin (Cyrillized), Nanai, Nogai, Old Russian, Ossetian, Russian, Rusyn, Rutul, Serbian (Cyrillized), Southern Altai, Tabassaran, Tajik, Tatar (Cyrillized), Tati, Tsakhur, Tundra Yukaghir, Turkmen (Cyrillized), Tuvin, Udi, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Uyghur (Cyrillized), and Uzbek
Whitney Greek3,9	Modern (monotonic) Greek
Whitney Multiscript5	Abaza, Adyghe, Afaan Oromo, Afrikaans, Aghul, Albanian, Alsatian, Aragonese, Arapaho, Archi, Arrernte, Asturian, Avar, Aymara, Azeri, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusan, Bislama, Blackfoot, Bosnian, Bosnian (Cyrillized), Breton, Bulgarian, Russia Buriat, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chechen (Cyrillized), Cheyenne, Chuvash, Cimbrian, Corsican, Crimean Turkish, Croatian, Czech, Dalecarlian, Danish, Dargwa, Dungan, Dutch, English, Erzya, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, Gallegan, Genoese, German, Glosa, Greek, Guarani, Haitian Creole, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hmong Daw, Hopi, Hungarian, Ibanag, Icelandic, Ilokano, Indonesian, Ingush, Interlingua, Irish, Irish Gaelic, Istro-Romanian, Italian, Japanese transliteration, Jèrriais, Juhuri, Kabardian, Kalmyk, Kapampangan, Karachay-Balkar, Kashubian, Kazakh, Khalkha (Cyrillized), Kirghiz, Kiribati, Komi, Komi-Permyak, Koongo, Korean transliteration, Kumyk, Kurdish, Ladin (Gardena), Ladin (Valle di Badia), Lak, Languedocien, Latin, Latvian, Lezgi, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard, Low Saxon, Lower Sorbian, Luxembourgeois, Macedo-Romanian, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay (Latinized), Maltese, Manx, Maori, Hill Mari, Meadow Mari, Marshallese, Megleno-Romanian, Míkmaq, Mohawk, Moksha, Moldovan (Cyrillized), Mongolian, Montenegrin (Cyrillized), Montenegrin (Latinized), Náhuatl, Nanai, Naxi (Latinized), Nogai, Norfolk/Pitcairnese, Norwegian, Nyanja, Occitan, Old Russian, Oromo, Ossetian, Pangasinan, Papiamento, Pedi, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Quechua, Romanian, Romansch, Rotokas, Rundi, Russian, Rusyn, Rutul, Saint Lucia Creole, Inari Sami, Lule Sami, Samoan, Sardinian, Scots Gaelic, Serbian (Cyrillized), Serbian (Latinized), Seychelles Creole, Shona, Sicilian, Slovak, Slovene, Somali, Sorbian, South Ndebele, Southern Altai, Southern Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swati, Swedish, Tabassaran, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tajik, Tatar (Cyrillized), Tati, Tausug, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tongan, Tsakhur, Tswana, Tundra Yukaghir, Turkish, Turkmen (Cyrillized), Turkmen (Latinized), Tuvalu, Tuvin, Udi, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Upper Sorbian, Uyghur (Cyrillized), Uyghur (Latinized), Uzbek, Veps, Vilamovian, Volapük, Votic, Walloon, Walpiri, Welsh, Xhosa, Zhuang, and Zulu

See also: What’s inside Whitney’s Multiscript Character Set.

Localization

Whitney contains the following language localizations, available to users of OpenType fonts within supporting applications.¹²

	Localized Characters
Bulgarian3,8	Text with language system tag “BGR” substitutes Bulgarian variants of the characters Л, Ф, в, г, д, ж, и, й, к, л, п, т, ц, ш, щ, and ю in all romans; and Л, Ф, в, д, ж, к, and ю in all italics
Serbian/Macedonian3,8	Text with language system tags “SRB” or “MKD” substitutes Serbian/Macedonian variants of the character б in all romans; and б, г, д, п, т and ш in all italics
Turkish5	Text with language system tag “TRK” maps dotted and dotless I (i/İ, ı/I) to corresponding capitals and small capitals, when activating the “All Caps” or “Small Caps” OpenType features7

See also: Cyrillic Localization in Whitney.