Ten Oldstyle is a four-weight type family from Principal Designer Robert Slimbach at Adobe. He designed it as the Latin component of Ten Mincho, a Japanese typeface by Adobe’s Chief Designer Ryoko Nishizuka. As it began to take the form of a small type family, Robert decided to release Ten Oldstyle on its own as well.
Ten Oldstyle might be described as a low-contrast semi-formal book face — a style which isn’t all that common among oldstyle fonts. These traits lend themselves particularly well to reading on-screen text, especially when the content is of an expressive nature. The weight axis spans from light text to bold, and includes italics.
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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Design Projects
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PDFs
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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:
Ten Oldstyle RegularWeb
To use this font on your website, use the following CSS:
font-family: ten-oldstyle, serif;
font-style: italicnormal;
font-weight: 400;
Glyph Support & Stylistic Filters
Fonts in the Adobe Fonts library include support for many different languages, OpenType features, and typographic styles.