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Features
of Yale Administrative Italic
Yale
Administrative Italic is designed to support non-designers
in their typesetting roles. While using Yale Administrative
Italic cannot in itself ensure good typesetting,
it has, like its companion face, a number of features
that can help.
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1.
The font has a “non-colliding” lowercase
f, which means that the f will not tangle with the
lowercase characters i, l, or k, and that it will
also keep clear of all accent marks. Therefore,
the painstaking use of ligatures—combined ff,
ffi, ffl, fi, and fl characters that gracefully
address these collisions—is no longer necessary
(or possible) in this font.
One of the big advantages of setting without ligatures is that text can go directly into HTML
without the need to search for and replace the ligatures (which otherwise appear as blanks in most browsers)
with the individual characters.
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2.
The various dashes—hyphen, em-dash, and en-dash—are sized and spaced so that no
adjustment is necessary. They should be set exactly as they come, with no
extra spaces before or after.
Additional Info
This font comes with aligning
figures (numbers) because that is the expectation for most administrative work. Old-style
(nonaligning) figures are available in the “Design” versions of the typeface.
For additional guidance regarding the use of this font or for design or typographic advice,
please contact John Gambell
in the Office of the Yale University Printer.
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