Adobe Systems on Wednesday announced the release of Font Folio 11, its type software library that works on Mac OS X and Windows. Based on OpenType, Font Folio 11 offers more than 2,300 fonts from the Adobe Type Library. It costs $8,999 for a 20-user license. Upgrades are available. A special five-computer license costs $2,599.
Font Folio 11 offers OpenType fonts with enhanced linguistic support and advanced typographic features. The software adds 176 new fonts and includes Adobe Originals typefaces. Included with the package are typefaces such as Arno Pro and Garamond Premier Pro.
Also included with Font Folio 11 is a special Opticals package that provide four or more separate designs for each font, optimized for a different range of point sizes from tiny text for footnotes to large type for headlines. Font Folio 11 typefaces include an expanded glyph set and advanced typographic elements like swashes, small caps, and old-style fingers.
System requirements call for a G4 or better (Intel included), Mac OS X and 16MB RAM.