History
The Adobe Bengali typeface was designed by Neelakash Kshetrimayum, with Bengali script expert Fiona Ross consulting on the design. This type family was designed to harmonize with Adobe’s other Brahmic fonts, both in terms of apparent size and style, to ensure that this suite of typefaces families can be typeset together as a system. The primary intended usage — for printed outputs, particularly continuous text settings — guided the design direction.
The letter construction is based on traditional Bengali calligraphy and features a contrast distribution somewhat lower than the norm so as to maintain strong, legible forms at small sizes. Careful attention to shaping and details allow these typefaces to also serve well as display types at larger sizes. The Adobe Bengali fonts comply with the Unicode standard for character encoding and leverage OpenType® layout to produce correct script shaping and accurate mark placement. A full set of Bengali conjuncts is included in the fonts to provide the most natural representation of Bengali text. The length of the ikars—િ and ી—varies automatically according to adjacent letter or conjunct width. The designer has provided careful placement of all vowel signs and modifiers. The fonts include both proportional and tabular numerals in Bengali and European styles.
The Adobe Bengali fonts are a welcome addition to the canon of digital Bengali fonts as an alternative to Linotype Bengali and its clones, which have dominated much of the publication industry for the past several decades.
Menu Names And Style Linking
In many Windows® applications, instead of every font appearing on the menu, fonts are grouped into style-linked sets, and only the name of the base style font for a set is shown in the menu. The italic and the bold weight fonts of the set (if any) are not shown in the font menu, but can still be accessed by selecting the base style font, and then using the italic and bold style buttons. In this family, such programs will show only the following base style font name in the menu:
Adobe Bengali
To access the bold style, use the bold style button.
On the Mac OS operating system, although each font appears as a separate entry on the font menu, users may also select fonts by means of style links. Selecting a base style font and then using the style links (as described above for Windows applications) enhances cross-platform document compatibility with many applications, such as Microsoft Word and Adobe PageMaker software, although it is unnecessary with more sophisticated Adobe applications such as recent versions of Illustrator, Photoshop or InDesign software.
One should not, however, select a base font which has no style-linked variant, and then use the bold or italic styling button. Doing so will either have no effect, or result in programmatic bolding or slanting of the base font, which will usually produce inferior screen and print results.
For all fonts of family Adobe Bengali: version 1.031 created on Fri Nov 15 11:50:20 2013.
version 1.030 created 2014/04/02
Some glyphs in the font cannot be accessed unless you are using an OpenType compatible application.
The Adobe Originals program started in 1989 as an in-house type foundry at Adobe, brought together to create original typefaces of exemplary design quality, technical fidelity, and aesthetic longevity.
Today the Type team’s mission is to make sophisticated and even experimental typefaces that explore the possibilities of design and technology. Typefaces released as Adobe Originals are the result of years of work and study, regarded as industry standards for the ambition and quality of their development.
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How to Use
You may encounter slight variations in the name of this font, depending on where you use it. Here’s what to look for.
Desktop
In application font menus, this font will display:
{{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.preferred_family_name}} {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.preferred_subfamily_name}}Web
To use this font on your website, use the following CSS:
font-family: {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.family.css_font_stack.replace('"', '').replace('",', ', ')}};
font-style: italicnormal;
font-weight: {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.font.web.weight}};
Glyph Support & Stylistic Filters
Fonts in the Adobe Fonts library include support for many different languages, OpenType features, and typographic styles.