Documentation: Whitney Font Family

Character Set

Whitney is available in the three editions Basic, Advanced, and Pro, each containing a progressively larger set of styles and characters:

	Whitney Basic	Whitney Advanced	Whitney Pro
Letters	Capitals Lowercase	Capitals Lowercase Roman Small Caps1 Italic Small Caps1	Capitals Lowercase Roman Small Caps1 Italic Small Caps1
Numbers	Lining Figures	Lining Figures Old-Style Figures	Lining Figures Old-Style Figures Tabular Lining Figures Fractions Numerators Denominators Superscripts Subscripts
Special Characters	Stylistic Alternates	Stylistic Alternates Contextual Punctuation	Stylistic Alternates Contextual Punctuation Extended Monetary Tabular Monetary Tabular Commercial Tabular Math Numerical Indices Alphabetic Indices1

Font Features

Whitney contains the following font features, available in supporting applications.⁵

	Activated by:
Accents	Both Latin-1 and Latin-X accents are accessible from the keyboard4
Small Caps2	Activated by the "Small Caps" OpenType feature5
Lining Figures2	Provided as the default in each font style, or activated by the "Proportional Lining" OpenType feature5
Old-Style Figures	Activated by the "Proportional Oldstyle" OpenType feature5
Tabular Figures3	Activated by the "Tabular Lining Figures" OpenType feature5
Indices3	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 feature5, and typing two characters
Fractions3	All possible fraction combinations are automatically inserted inline once the "Fractions" OpenType feature is activated5
Numerators & Denominators3	Activated by the "Numerator" and "Denominator" OpenType features5
Superscripts & Subscripts3	Full set of super- and subscripts are activated by the "Superior" and "Inferior" OpenType features3,5
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
Stylistic Alternates	All alternate characters are included, and can be activated by the "Stylistic Alternates"5 or "Stylistic Sets"6 OpenType features, or selected manually from the glyph palette
Extended Monetary3	Accessible from the glyph palette, or from the keyboard under appropriate localizations4
Contextual Punctuation2	Small cap punctuation is activated by the "All Small Caps" OpenType feature5
Tabular Symbols3	Activated by the "Tabular Lining Figures" OpenType feature5

Stylistic Sets

Whitney contains the following Stylistic Sets, available in supporting applications.⁶

	Description	Behavior
01	Flat Terminals1	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 g7 (italic)	Substitutes the ‘two-storey’ lowercase g in italic styles Affects lowercase g and related accents
09	Alternate a7 (italic)	Substitutes the ‘two-storey’ lowercase a in italic styles Affects lowercase a and related accents
10	Alternate M7	Substitutes the ‘flat-sided’ capital M Affects capital and small cap M, trademark symbol, and servicemark symbol
11	Alternate Q7	Substitutes the ‘non-descending’ capital Q Affects capital and small cap Q
12	Alternate U7	Substitutes the ‘asymmetric’ capital U Affects capital and small cap U, and related accents
13	Alternate W7	Substitutes the ‘intersecting’ capital W Affects capital and small cap W, and related accents
14	Alternate g7 (roman)	Substitutes the ‘single-storey’ lowercase g in roman styles Affects lowercase g and related accents
15	Alternate 37	Substitutes the ‘flat-topped’ figure 3 Affects lining and old-style figure 3
16	Alternate 47	Substitutes the ‘open-topped’ figure 4 Affects lining figure 4
17	Curly quotes2,5	Substitutes the ‘curled’ quotes Affects the comma, semicolon, single quotes, double quotes, and baseline quotes
18	Large ®7	Substitutes the full-height registered symbol
19	Cyrillic alternates5,6	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

Language Support

All editions of Whitney include the Latin-X™, Greek, and Cyrillic-X™ character sets, supporting 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: Extended Language Support in Whitney.

Localization

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

	Localized Characters
Bulgarian8	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/Macedonian8	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
Turkish	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 features5

See also: Cyrillic Localization in Whitney.