Optical Size

A few fonts like Computer Modern are available with optical sizes.

This guide should help to use fonts from Adobe with optical sizes.

Replacements

Adobe provides four different sizes for their fonts, but not each of them comes with every style like Bold or Italic, replacements for these missing styles are defined in the font:optical:... setups.

\startsetups [font:optical:serif]

  \definefontsynonym [SerifCaption-Regular]     [SerifRegular-Regular]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifCaption-Bold]        [SerifCaption-Regular]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifCaption-Italic]      [SerifCaption-Regular]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifCaption-Slanted]     [SerifCaption-Italic]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifCaption-BoldItalic]  [SerifCaption-Regular]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifCaption-BoldSlanted] [SerifCaption-BoldItalic]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifCaption-Caps]        [SerifCaption-Regular]

  \definefontsynonym [SerifRegular-Regular]     [DefaultFont]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifRegular-Bold]        [SerifRegular-Regular]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifRegular-Italic]      [SerifRegular-Regular]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifRegular-Slanted]     [SerifRegular-Italic]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifRegular-BoldItalic]  [SerifRegular-Regular]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifRegular-BoldSlanted] [SerifRegular-BoldItalic]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifRegular-Caps]        [SerifRegular-Regular]

  \definefontsynonym [SerifSubhead-Regular]     [SerifRegular-Regular]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifSubhead-Bold]        [SerifSubhead-Regular]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifSubhead-Italic]      [SerifSubhead-Regular]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifSubhead-Slanted]     [SerifSubhead-Italic]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifSubhead-BoldItalic]  [SerifSubhead-Regular]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifSubhead-BoldSlanted] [SerifSubhead-BoldItalic]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifSubhead-Caps]        [SerifSubhead-Regular]

  \definefontsynonym [SerifDisplay-Regular]     [SerifRegular-Regular]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifDisplay-Bold]        [SerifDisplay-Regular]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifDisplay-Italic]      [SerifDisplay-Regular]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifDisplay-Slanted]     [SerifDisplay-Italic]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifDisplay-BoldItalic]  [SerifDisplay-Regular]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifDisplay-BoldSlanted] [SerifDisplay-BoldItalic]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifDisplay-Caps]        [SerifDisplay-Regular]

\stopsetups

Font assignments

Each of the four sizes is designed for a specific size, e.g. Caption is suitable between 4pt and 8pt, the Regular size between 9pt and 12pt ...

\starttypescript [serif] [optical] [size]

  \definebodyfont [4pt,5pt,6pt,7pt,8pt] [rm]
    [tf=SerifCaption-Regular     sa 1,
     bf=SerifCaption-Bold        sa 1,
     it=SerifCaption-Italic      sa 1,
     sl=SerifCaption-Slanted     sa 1,
     bi=SerifCaption-BoldItalic  sa 1,
     bs=SerifCaption-BoldSlanted sa 1,
     sc=SerifCaption-Caps        sa 1]

  \definebodyfont [9pt,10pt,11pt,12pt] [rm]
    [tf=SerifRegular-Regular     sa 1,
     bf=SerifRegular-Bold        sa 1,
     it=SerifRegular-Italic      sa 1,
     sl=SerifRegular-Slanted     sa 1,
     bi=SerifRegular-BoldItalic  sa 1,
     bs=SerifRegular-BoldSlanted sa 1,
     sc=SerifRegular-Caps        sa 1]

  \definebodyfont [14.4pt,17.3pt] [rm]
    [tf=SerifSubhead-Regular     sa 1,
     bf=SerifSubhead-Bold        sa 1,
     it=SerifSubhead-Italic      sa 1,
     sl=SerifSubhead-Slanted     sa 1,
     bi=SerifSubhead-BoldItalic  sa 1,
     bs=SerifSubhead-BoldSlanted sa 1,
     sc=SerifSubhead-Caps        sa 1]

  \definebodyfont [20.7pt] [rm]
    [tf=SerifDisplay-Regular     sa 1,
     bf=SerifDisplay-Bold        sa 1,
     it=SerifDisplay-Italic      sa 1,
     sl=SerifDisplay-Slanted     sa 1,
     bi=SerifDisplay-BoldItalic  sa 1,
     bs=SerifDisplay-BoldSlanted sa 1,
     sc=SerifDisplay-Caps        sa 1]

\stoptypescript

Typescripts

To use the font in our document, the symbolic font names used in the font assignments section above need to be mapped to actual font files.

\starttypescript [serif] [minion-pro]

  \definefontsynonym [Serif]           [SerifRegular-Regular]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifBold]       [SerifRegular-Bold]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic]     [SerifRegular-Italic]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [SerifRegular-BoldItalic]

\stoptypescript

\starttypescript [serif] [minion-pro]

  \setups[font:optical:serif]

  \definefontsynonym [SerifCaption-Regular]    [file:MinionPro-Capt]       [features=default]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifCaption-Bold]       [file:MinionPro-BoldCapt]   [features=default]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifCaption-Italic]     [file:MinionPro-ItCapt]     [features=default]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifCaption-BoldItalic] [file:MinionPro-BoldItCapt] [features=default]

  \definefontsynonym [SerifRegular-Regular]    [file:MinionPro-Regular]    [features=default]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifRegular-Bold]       [file:MinionPro-Bold]       [features=default]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifRegular-Italic]     [file:MinionPro-It]         [features=default]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifRegular-BoldItalic] [file:MinionPro-BoldIt]     [features=default]

  \definefontsynonym [SerifSubhead-Regular]    [file:MinionPro-Subh]       [features=default]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifSubhead-Bold]       [file:MinionPro-BoldSubh]   [features=default]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifSubhead-Italic]     [file:MinionPro-ItSubh]     [features=default]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifSubhead-BoldItalic] [file:MinionPro-BoldItSubh] [features=default]

  \definefontsynonym [SerifDisplay-Regular]    [file:MinionPro-Disp]       [features=default]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifDisplay-Bold]       [file:MinionPro-BoldDisp]   [features=default]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifDisplay-Italic]     [file:MinionPro-ItDisp]     [features=default]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifDisplay-BoldItalic] [file:MinionPro-BoldItDisp] [features=default]

\stoptypescript

Typeface

In the final step is to define a typeface where the normal size values are replaced with the size ranges.

\starttypescript [minion-pro]
  \definetypeface [minion-pro] [rm] [serif] [minion-pro] [optical]
\stoptypescript