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Old Standard was intended as a multilingual font family suitable for biblical, classical and medieval studies as well as for general-purpose typesetting in languages which use Greek or Cyrillic script. The font is currently available in three shapes: regular, italic and bold. Old Standard is still far from being finished, and yet it already covers a wide range of Latin, Greek and Cyrillic characters, as the image below can demonstrate. Beginning from version 2.0 it also supports early Cyrillic letters and signs (including those added in Unicode 5.1) and thus can be used for texts containing fragments in Old Slavonic and Church Slavonic languages.

Terms of Use

Old Standard is freely available and may be used by anyone at no cost. It is released under the SIL Open Font License, a free and open source license that permits modification and redistribution.

To download Old Standard, go to my font download page, where all download links are placed. Except the font files themselves, there is a PDF manual available, where you can find detailed instructions on how to install the fonts and use them effectively.

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Old Standard Font Family

There are many differences between TrueType and OpenType-CFF formats, but their functionality is nearly the same from the user's point of view. In particular it should be noted that both versions of the Old Standard fonts include the same set of advanced OpenType features. As for Graphite tables, they are currently available only in TrueType fonts, but this advantage makes no difference for most applications.

Previously I used to recommended installing TrueType versions, since the support for this format was generally better both on Windows and *nix platforms. However since then most of the problems with OpenType-CFF fonts have been fixed by software developers (in particular it is now possible to use them in the Linux versions of OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice), and so preferring one of the two formats is now essentially a matter of taste. Note that it is possible to install both TrueType and OpenType-CFF versions of the Old Standard family alongside, as they follow different naming conventions (a "TT" suffix is appended to the font name and family name fields in TrueType fonts).

WOFF is a relatively new format, developed for use in web pages. Basically a WOFF file is an OpenType font compressed for size reduction. Like other OpenType fonts, it may be either TrueType or PostScript flavored. Note that the WOFF files I distribute for the Old Standard font family have TrueType contours, but no "TT" suffix in their font names. Of course you may want to download these font files only if you are engaged into web design.

The name "Old Standard" was selected as opposed to the "Obyknovennaya Novaya" ("New Standard") typeface, widely used in the Soviet typography, which represents another, slightly different type of the same Modern style. The digital version of this font is now available from Paratype. Of course this name doesn't look very original, but it seems to be a good choice for a revival of the most common lettertype of the early 20th century.

Note on available formats

The Old Standard font family is currently available in several formats:

• TrueType fonts, or, more precisely, OpenType fonts with TrueType outlines;

• OpenType fonts with PostScript outlines (also called OpenType-CFF);

• WOFF fonts for embedding into web pages.

The name "Old Standard" was selected as opposed to the "Obyknovennaya Novaya" ("New Standard") typeface, widely used in the Soviet typography, which represents another, slightly different type of the same Modern style. The digital version of this font is now available from Paratype. Of course this name doesn't look very original, but it seems to be a good choice for a revival of the most common lettertype of the early 20th century.

Note on available formats

The Old Standard font family is currently available in several formats:

• TrueType fonts, or, more precisely, OpenType fonts with TrueType outlines;

• OpenType fonts with PostScript outlines (also called OpenType-CFF);

• WOFF fonts for embedding into web pages.

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