Read Me

# Source™ Code Pro

This document contains late-breaking product information, updates, and troubleshooting tips.
Minimum system requirements
Font installation
Family information
Release Notes
Known issues
Customer care
Other resources

## Minimum system requirements

Windows®

- Intel® Pentium,® Intel Centrino,® Intel Xeon,® or Intel Core™ Duo processor
- Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista™, or Windows 7
- 16 MB of RAM (32 MB recommended)
- Note: Fonts from Font Folio 11 may also be installed under Microsoft Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition, and Windows NT® 4.0 with Service Pack 4 if you install Adobe Type Manager® (ATM™) Light 4.1 on your system. If using a PostScript® printer on Windows 98/ME, AdobePS™ printer driver 4.3 or later is recommended. If using a PostScript printer on Windows NT 4.0, AdobePS printer driver 5.1.2 or later is recommended.

Macintosh

- PowerPC® G4 or G5 or multicore Intel processor
- Mac OS X
- 16 MB of RAM (32 MB recommended)
- If using a PostScript printer, the latest AdobePS printer driver is recommended.
- Note: Fonts from Font Folio 11 may be installed under Mac OS 8.6 through 9.2 with ATM Light 4.6, and under Classic mode in Mac OS X with ATM Light 4.6.2.

## Font installation

For information on installing these fonts, see http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_fontinstall_en.

## Family information

History

Source Code Pro was designed by Paul D. Hunt as a companion to Source Sans. This complementary family was adapted from the Source design due to a request to create a monospaced version for coding applications. Source Code preserves the design features and vertical proportions of Source Sans, but alters the glyph widths so that they are uniform across all glyphs and weights. Although this family was designed specifically for coding environments, for which a regular weight will typically suffice, Source Code has been made available in the same weight range as the corresponding Source Sans design.
Source Code Pro currently supports a wide range of languages using the Latin script, and includes all the characters in the Adobe Latin 4 glyph set. As an open source project, it is expected that incremental updates will be made over time to extend glyph set coverage and functionality. Future releases are expected to add support for Greek and Cyrillic scripts, italics, and other features documented on the project page at Open@Adobe, which is hosted by SourceForge.net®. If you are interested in contributing to this open source project, please visit this project page for information on how to become involved. Source Code Pro can be adapted and redistributed according to the terms of the Open Font License (OFL) agreement.

Menu Names And Style Linking

In many Windows® applications, instead of every font appearing on the menu, fonts are grouped into style-linked sets, and only the name of the base style font for a set is shown in the menu. The italic and the bold weight fonts of the set (if any) are not shown in the font menu, but can still be accessed by selecting the base style font, and then using the italic and bold style buttons. In this family, such programs will show only the following base style font names in the menu:

Source Code Pro
Source Code Pro Black
Source Code Pro ExtraLight
Source Code Pro Light
Source Code Pro Medium
Source Code Pro Semibold

The other fonts in this family must be selected by choosing a menu name and then a style option following the guide below.

Menu Name |  | plus Style Option... |  | selects this font
Source Code Pro |  | [none] |  | Source Code Pro Regular
Source Code Pro |  | Bold |  | Source Code Pro Bold
Source Code Pro ExtraLight |  | [none] |  | Source Code Pro ExtraLight
Source Code Pro Light |  | [none] |  | Source Code Pro Light
Source Code Pro Medium |  | [none] |  | Source Code Pro Medium
Source Code Pro Semibold |  | [none] |  | Source Code Pro Semibold
Source Code Pro Black |  | [none] |  | Source Code Pro Black

On the Mac OS, although each font appears as a separate entry on the font menu, users may also select fonts by means of style links. Selecting a base style font and then using the style links (as described above for Windows) enhances cross-platform document compatibility with many applications, such as Microsoft® Word and Adobe PageMaker®, although it is unnecessary with more sophisticated Adobe applications such as recent versions of Illustrator®, Photoshop® or InDesign®.

One should not, however, select a base font which has no style-linked variant, and then use the bold or italic styling button. Doing so will either have no effect, or result in programmatic bolding or slanting of the base font, which will usually produce inferior screen and print results.

## Release Notes

For all fonts of family Source Code Pro : version 1.017 created on Wed Jan 11 11:26:00 2013.

version 1.017 created 2013/01/11

- Updates the design of the asterisk glyphs, bar, and broken bar.
- Updates the hinting to the default asterisk in all styles.
- Adds an new Medium weight to the font project.
- Updates design of the following glyphs to center them within glyph height/width:
  - lighttrpldashhorzbxd
  - heavytrpldashhorzbxd
  - lighttrpldashvertbxd
  - heavytrpldashvertbxd
  - lightquaddashhorzbxd
  - heavyquaddashhorzbxd
  - lightquaddashvertbxd
  - heavyquaddashvertbxd
  - lightdbldashhorzbxd
  - heavydbldashhorzbxd
  - lightdbldashvertbxd
  - heavydbldashvertbxd

For all fonts of family Source Code Pro : version 1.013 created on Thu Dec 06 18:18:45 2012.

version 1.013 created 2012/12/06

- Updates design of asterisk and hyphen to accommodate coders' preferences.
- Realigns math and punctuation glyphs.
- Adds a stylistic set (ss01) for typographic alternates.
- Adds a stylistic set (ss04) for alternate dollar sign.
- Adds a small number of IPA characters.
- Adds box drawing characters and block elements.

version 1.010 created 2012/09/30

- Fixed TrueType hinting problem in Bold ampersand.

version 1.009 created 2012/09/20

- First release.

## Known issues

- Some glyphs in the font cannot be accessed unless you are using an OpenType-savvy application.

## Customer care

Customer Service
Adobe Customer Service provides assistance with product information, sales, registration, and other non-technical issues. To find out how to contact Adobe Customer Service, please visit Adobe.com for your region or country and click on Contact.

Support Plan Options and Technical Resources
If you require technical assistance for your product, including information on free and paid support options and troubleshooting resources, more information is available at http://www.adobe.com/go/support/. Outside of North America, go to http://www.adobe.com/go/intlsupport/. Free troubleshooting resources include Adobe’s support knowledgebase, Adobe user-to-user forums and more.

## Other resources

Online Resources
Adobe Type Showroom
Adobe Type Showroom - all current Read-Me files for our font families
User Forums

© 2012 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved.