Whitney
How to use
Whitney
Editorial typefaces are designed for space efficiency, signage fonts for legibility at a distance. Whitney bridges this divide in a single design: its compact forms, larger lowercase, ample counters, and open shapes making it clear under any circumstances
The Whitney family contains six weights from Light to Black, each provided in roman, italic, and both roman and italic small caps. Whitney maintains visually consistent intervals between its weights, to ensure that every style has a heavier counterpart that provides the same degree of emphasis.
For every weight of Whitney, the style that’s three steps heavier has sufficient visual contrast to serve as a boldface:
Whitney ScreenSmart is designed for on-screen text. To emphasize any of its styles, use the weight that’s three steps heavier:
Use Whitney’s italics to distinguish text without changing its weight:
For more contrast, use the small caps:
Whitney is suited to use at sizes large and small. The following tables offer some conservative guidelines for the smallest sizes at which the fonts can comfortably be reproduced and read, assuming typical reading conditions, and conventional contrast between type and background colors. The recommendations for sizes on screen are based on the coarser resolutions of older, entry-level monitors: at the higher resolutions available on modern phones, tablets, and laptops, type is viable at even smaller sizes.
For digital applications, Whitney ScreenSmart is an adaptation specifically designed for use on screen at text sizes, and engineered to deliver superior rendering in web browsers.
Text/Headlines
index white
index black
Text
ScreenSmart® (SSm) fonts, designed for web and mobile applications, are engineered to work on screen at text sizes.
Text
Whitney has six types of numbers: old-style figures for text, lining figures to accompany capitals, tabular figures for setting numbers in columns, fractions and fraction parts, superscripts and subscripts, and circled indices.
Whitney has features that make it easier to use tabular figures when designing data-heavy applications such as charts, tables, menus, and reports, as well as digital experiences that show dynamic data such as prices, statistics, product numbers, timetables, account numbers, points, or scores.
Many of Whitney’s special characters and alternates are grouped into Stylistic Sets, an OpenType feature available in many applications that makes it easier to apply related substitutions together.
5.1Stylistic Sets
5.2Additional Characters
Whitney automatically adjusts spacing to improve typography.
6.1Kerning
Whitney is spaced and kerned to perform in most circumstances without the need for manual intervention. In applications that offer multiple options for kerning type, always use the default kerning that’s native to the typefaces (labeled auto in Illustrator, and metrics in InDesign) — never use the setting for optical kerning.
So-called ‘optical kerning’ was originally developed as an automated assist for fonts that lack kerning. But applied to a professional typeface, it overrides the visual decisions made by the font’s designers, and instead spaces characters using a mathematical model. It routinely misjudges common pairs, ignores important context, and misaligns tabular figures, creating erratic and disruptive rhythms. Because its algorithms are subject to change with each software update, ‘optical kerning’ can cause text to be reflowed without notice.
The Whitney family comes in three different editions: a Basic package containing a core character set, an Advanced edition that adds small capitals and old-style figures, and a Pro edition that contains the comprehensive character set for professional typographers.
Letters
Numbers
Punctuation
Whitney features H&Co’s Expanded Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek character sets.
Whitney supports 564 languages including Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Kazakh, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgeois, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sardinian, Scots Gaelic, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Welsh, and Zulu.
8.1Bulgarian Localization
Whitney includes Cyrillic localizations for Bulgarian. In applications that support language tagging, Bulgarian text (tagged bgr) will substitute local variants of the roman characters Л, Ф, в, г, д, ж, и, й, к, л, п, т, ц, ш, щ, and ю, and the italic characters Л, Ф, в, д, ж, к, and ю.
8.2Serbian and Macedonian Localization
Whitney also includes Cyrillic localizations for Serbian and Macedonian. In applications that support language tagging, text tagged srb or mkd will use local variants of the roman character б, and the italic characters б, г, д, п, т and ш.
