Old Standard is supposed to reproduce the actual printing style of the
early 20th century, reviving a specific type of Modern (classicist)
style of serif typefaces, very commonly used in various editions of
the late 19th and early 20th century, but almost completely abandoned
later.

It supports typesetting of Old and Middle English, Old Icelandic,
Cyrillic (with historical characters, extensions for Old Slavonic and
localised forms), Gothic transliterations, critical editions of
Classical Greek and Latin, and many more.

Old Standard works with TeX engines that directly support OpenType
features, such as XeTeX and LuaTeX.
