Typophile

Iowan Old Style

Stéphane Darricau

Hello, all
I’ve always been a big fan of John Downer’s work, so I was overjoyed when
I discovered that his wonderful Iowan Old Style was included in Yosemite
— in a “.ttc” format, which I don’t quite understand, but with small caps and
old style figures, which were lacking from my old Bitstream PS version.
Unfortunately, these features don’t seem to work in InDesign: the glyphs are
visible in the ‘Glyphs’ window, but can't be used unless you double-click on
the ones you need to typeset… Does anyone know what all this is about?
Thank you very much.

Karl Stange

These seem to work normally for me (Mac OS X 10.9.4/InDesign CC 2014) by highlighting the lower case text and selecting the small caps button or by selecting Small Caps from the Character palette sub-menu. Are those methods not working?

Stéphane Darricau

I’m afraid not – what I get by using both methods you described are fake small caps, significantly smaller and thinner than the real ones accessed through the ‘Glyphs’ window.

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