Posted October 29th, 2004 @ 01:14pm by Erik J. Barzeski
I'm considering using "Utopia" in my new blog's design, but am not sure where the font comes from. Any ideas? It appears to be an Adobe font. I'll research it more after I work on the design more here in Photoshop, but I thought someone might have the answer before I get around to it.
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Posted 29 Oct 2004 at 1:57pm #
It looks (just from a casual search) to be a Linotype font:
http://www.linotype.com/1570/utopia-family.html
Posted 29 Oct 2004 at 5:11pm #
According to MyFonts, it's definitely Linotype.
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/utopia/
Posted 29 Oct 2004 at 5:43pm #
Thank you for the comments, but neither tell me what software might install it so that I could determine whether a good % of my visitors would have it.
Posted 29 Oct 2004 at 6:03pm #
I think that it was donated to X11 a long time ago. Every X11 implementation I've seen in recent memory has it.
Posted 08 Feb 2005 at 1:03pm #
According to Adobe, Slimbach designed the font for them in 1989: http://store.adobe.com/type/browser/P/P_1414.html
As for cross-platform issues: Utopia is not a default font for any Windows version I've ever used; I'm not sure about Macs.