Previous Standard reproduces a particular sort of contemporary (classicist) type of serif typefaces, pretty generally employed in several editions with the late 19th and early twentieth century, but practically absolutely deserted later on. However, this lettertype even now has at the very least two rewards:
it could be regarded a good choice for typesetting scientific papers, especially on social and humanitarian sciences, as its precise options are closely connected in people’s eyes with aged publications they learned on;
by far the most lovely examples of Greek and Cyrillic lettertypes had been all based over the classicist fashion, so for all those scripts, “Modern” fonts tend to be much more appropriate than any contemporary (e. g. Times-based) designs.
The title “Old Standard” was picked as opposed to the “Obyknovennaya Novaya” (“New Standard”) typeface, broadly employed in Soviet typography, which represents yet another, marginally various form from the identical Contemporary design. Not surprisingly this title won’t glance really unique, nonetheless it appears to be a good choice to get a revival in the commonest lettertype on the early twentieth century.