Macintosh Standard Character Set
Most ITC typefaces for the Macintosh, whether in Type 1 or TrueType format, contain the following character set. This character set supports North America, South America, and most of Western Europe. Some of ITC's new Fontek display typefaces may contain alternate characters in place of some of the lesser-used standard characters, such as the math symbols. Some older Fontek display typefaces may contain a modified character set. DesignFonts do not contain any letters; they contain spot illustrations in the font's character positions.
PC Standard Character Set
ITC typefaces for the PC, whether in Type 1 or TrueType format, contain the following character set. This character set supports North America, South America, and most of Western Europe. Some of ITC's new Fontek display typefaces, however, contain alternate characters in place of some of the lesser-used standard characters, such as the math symbols. Some older Fontek display typefaces may contain a modified character set. DesignFonts do not contain any letters; they contain spot illustrations in the font's character positions.
Fontek Modified Character Set
Some original Fontek typefaces may contain a modified character set that offers additional design options. When these display typefaces were originally developed, certain characters, such as the "at" symbol, the number sign, and the equals sign, were not part of the standard display character set. In their place, the original designers added alternate characters, ornaments, ligatures, swashes, initial capitals, and other special characters. For example, Arriba (displayed below) contains a set of border ornaments and a series of alternate characters in place of certain standard characters. In addition, some Fontek display typefaces only contain uppercase characters.
If you have any questions about the character sets supplied by ITC, please contact ITC at support@itcfonts.com.