What does "LT" stand for? [2008]

[_Nick_Moreno_]

Looking over Adobe's font list (http://www.adobe.com/products/fontfolio/pdfs/fontfolio11_font_list.pdf), I noticed that many fonts have "LT" attached to their names, e.g. "Helvetica LT Std Black."

What does "LT" mean?

Thanks,
Nick

[Dov Isaacs]

LT => Linotype, the font library from which the font was originally sourced by Adobe.

- Dov

[David333658478k5e]

Hi, do you know what COM means. For example in this font name: Helvetica Neue LT Com 

Thank you

David

[Bobby Henderson]

It's probably shorthand for Compressed.

[jmlevy]

I don't know exactly what it litterally means, but a font whose name ends with com is a font containing more glyphs (for more languages) than the Pro or Std version.

See here: https://www.fonts.com/support/faq/opentype-varieties

[J E L]

Comprehensive? I love reading threads from 2008!

[jmlevy]

Yes, but the question I answered to has been posted on November 3…

[J E L]

Oh, no, I saw that you did reply just recently! I was just going through threads since this one was back to the front page and I thought that COM might stand for compressive. Sometimes my humor doesn't come through to anyone else, but I'm living with it as best I can.

[_Nick_Moreno_]

Does this mean that the font included in this package is not the "original" Helvetica (i.e. the ubiquitous one seen all over billboards, business signs, flyers, etc...)?

[Dov Isaacs]

It is essentially the same Helvetica font that was included in the original Adobe PostScript printers. That font was also sourced from Linotype. The difference is that the Helvetica LT fonts are OpenType CFF fonts, not simple Type 1 fonts. The design is the same.

- Dov

[Neil_Keller]

You may also occasionally come across "LT" to mean "Light" as a font weight.

Neil

[Thomas Phinney]

yes, although usually that won't be all caps - "Lt" instead of "LT"

[Neil_Keller]

Thomas,<br /><br />It's a good thing Bitstream fonts are BT. <g><br /><br />Neil