Post Script Fonts - Core Font Set

Core Font Set

In addition to font types, PostScript specifications also defined the Core Font Set, which dictates the minimum number of fonts, and character sets to be supported by each font.

In original PostScript, there are 35 base fonts:

  • ITC Avant Garde Gothic (Book, Book Oblique, Demi, Demi Oblique)
  • ITC Bookman (Light, Light Italic, Demi, Demi Italic)
  • Courier (Regular, Oblique, Bold, Bold Oblique)
  • Helvetica (Regular, Oblique, Bold, Bold Oblique, Condensed, Condensed Oblique, Condensed Bold, Condensed Bold Oblique)
  • New Century Schoolbook (Roman, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic)
  • Palatino (Roman, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic)
  • Symbol
  • Times (Roman, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic)
  • ITC Zapf Chancery (Medium Italic)
  • ITC Zapf Dingbats

In PostScript 3, 136 fonts are specified, which includes the standard 35 fonts; core fonts in Windows 95, Windows NT and Macintosh; selected fonts from Microsoft Office and the HP 110 font set. New fonts include:

  • Albertus (Light, Roman, Italic)
  • Antique Olive (Roman, Italic, Bold, Compact)
  • Apple Chancery
  • Arial (Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic)
  • Bodoni (Roman, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Poster, Poster Compressed)
  • Carta
  • Chicago
  • Clarendon (Light, Roman, Bold)
  • Cooper Black, Cooper Black Italic
  • Copperplate Gothic (32BC, 33BC)
  • Coronet
  • Eurostile (Medium, Bold, Extended No.2, Bold Extended No.2)
  • Geneva
  • Gill Sans (Light, Light Italic, Book, Book Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Extra Bold, Condensed, Condensed Bold)
  • Goudy (Oldstyle, Oldstyle Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Extra Bold)
  • Helvetica (Narrow, Narrow Oblique, Narrow Bold, Narrow Bold Oblique)
  • Hoefler Text (Roman, Italic, Black, Black Italic), Hoefler Ornaments
  • Joanna (Roman/Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic)
  • Letter Gothic (Regular, Slanted, Bold, Bold Slanted)
  • ITC Lubalin Graph (Book, Oblique, Demi, Demi Oblique)
  • ITC Mona Lisa Recut
  • Marigold
  • Monaco
  • New York
  • Optima (Roman, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic)
  • Oxford
  • Stempel Garamond (Roman, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic)
  • Tekton (Regular)
  • Times New Roman (Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic)
  • Univers (45 Light, 45 Light Oblique, 55, 55 Oblique, 65 Bold, 65 Bold Oblique, 57 Condensed, 57 Condensed Oblique, 67 Condensed Bold, 67 Condensed Bold Oblique, 53 Extended, 53 Extended Oblique, 63 Extended Bold, 63 Extended Bold Oblique)
  • Wingdings

In PDF, the following 14 fonts are defined:

  • Courier (Regular, Oblique, Bold, Bold Oblique)
  • Helvetica (Regular, Oblique, Bold, Bold Oblique)
  • Symbol
  • Times (Roman, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic)
  • ITC Zapf Dingbats

However, in recent versions of Adobe Reader, Helvetica and Times were internally replaced by Arial and Times New Roman respectively.

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