Go-to Std. and Pro glyph lists

Joon Park

Is there some sort of standardized table order and glyph list for Std. and Pro fonts?

Stephen Coles

Unfortunately, there is no industry standard for the "Pro" label. Some foundries (like FontFont) use it to mark fonts with extra language support beyond basic Latin (which was Adobe’s definition when they coined the term in the early 2000s), but others use it to distinguish a font with extra OpenType features, such as alternates, ligatures, and even small caps. 

So, I suppose you could ask for Adobe’s Std/Pro structure, but it would only reliably apply to Adobe fonts. 

Karl Stange

Adobe's Latin Character set standards might be a better place to start. They are discussed, along with other character set standards in another TypeDrawers thread started by Stephen, Language support & character set standards: how do foundries label their Latin-based products today?

Joon Park

Damn... what a headache
I guess I'll follow Adobe for now.

Another question, yay or nay to PUA?

George Thomas

If you want to support extended Latin, you can always use Underware's Latin Plus set, here:
http://www.underware.nl/latin_plus/

Modify it to fit your own situation. Later Adobe Latin sets contain characters that are for specialized uses which you may not need. IIRC, Adobe uses Latin 3 as their "Std" basic so you could start there.

As for PUA, no.

Mark Simonson

"Std" and "Pro" are marketing terms, not a standards.

Thomas Phinney

I made FontLab .enc files for the Adobe Latin (1 through 5) and Cyrillic (1 to 3) character sets. https://github.com/tphinney/font-tools

George Thomas

Thanks, Thomas.