Old Standard For Mac

The Old Standard font family is an attempt to revive a specific type of Modern (classicist) style of serif typefaces, very commonly used in various editions printed in the late 19th and early 20th century, but almost completely  abandoned later.

Although contemporary typographers often consider this lettertype obsolete and out-of-fashion, it still has at least two advantages.

The classicist style still can be considered a good choice for typesetting scientific papers, especially on social and humanitarian sciences, as its specific features are closely associated in the people's eyes with old books they learned on.

The most beautiful examples of Greek and Cyrillic lettertypes were all based on the Modern style, so that for those scripts "Modern" fonts are much more appropriate than any contemporary (e. g. Times-based) designs.

That's why the Old Standard font family has two main purposes: it is intended to be used as a specialized font for philologists (mainly classicists, germanists and slavists) and also as a general-purpose font for typesetting various  editions in languages which use Greek or Cyrillic script.

For this reason the Old Standard font provides glyphs for a wide range of Greek, Latin and Cyrillic characters.