TrueType is an outline font standard developed by Apple in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's Type 1 fonts used in PostScript. It has become the...
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Computer font (section TrueType fonts)
needed] Examples of outline fonts include: PostScript Type 1 and Type 3 fonts, TrueType, OpenType and Compugraphic. The primary advantage of outline fonts...
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OpenType is a format for scalable computer fonts. Derived from TrueType, it retains TrueType's basic structure but adds many intricate data structures...
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Fonts on Macintosh (redirect from Datafork TrueType)
support for TrueType outline fonts through a freely available system extension, providing functionality similar to ATM. Apple provided TrueType outline files...
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Core fonts for the Web (redirect from Microsoft TrueType core fonts)
Impact, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, Verdana and Webdings, all of them in TrueType font format packaged in executable files (".exe") for Microsoft Windows...
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QuickDraw GX (redirect from TrueType GX)
curve-drawing commands that had been lacking from QD, as well as introducing TrueType as its basic font system. While GX addressed many of the problems that...
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version of Arial in a Type 1-compatible format. In 1990, Robin Nicholas, Patricia Saunders and Steve Matteson developed a TrueType outline version of Arial...
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Web typography (section TrueType/OpenType)
support commonly used font formats. Support for the commonly used TrueType and OpenType font formats has since been implemented in Safari 3.1, Opera 10...
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Comparison of font editors (section TrueType hinting)
typical for font editors. The OpenType cmap table can reference a maximum of 65536 glyphs. Font editors supporting TrueType hinting can do that either automatically...
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Wingdings (category Typefaces designed by Charles Bigelow (type designer))
symbols in the Wingdings and Webdings fonts in Unicode 7.0. Wingdings is a TrueType dingbat font included in all versions of Microsoft Windows from version...
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manufacturers. However, most of the major commercial programs support OpenType and TrueType fonts. Note: Information on supported fonts is not readily available...
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PostScript, TrueType, OpenType, Web Open Font Format (WOFF) fonts. SFNT stands for spline font or scalable font, and was originally developed for TrueType fonts...
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(1984 by Susan Kare), sans-serif font inspired by Helvetica. Converted to TrueType format and still installed on Macs. Espy Sans (1993, EWorld, Apple Newton...
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PostScript fonts (redirect from Type 1 and Type 3 fonts)
design their own system, TrueType, around 1991. Immediately following the announcement of TrueType, Adobe published ”Adobe type 1 font format”, a detailed...
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hinting data, much of which was accomplished manually by type engineer Tom Rickner. In the TrueType font format, released in 1991 by Apple Inc, hinting invokes...
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BSD-like license and the GPL. FreeType supports a number of font formats, including TrueType, Type 1, and OpenType. The FreeType rendering engine was started...
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restaurant, and has an asymmetric structure suggesting a child's handwriting. A TrueType version of Kristen is shipped with Microsoft Publisher 2000. Comic Sans...
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and Wingdings 2. Webdings, a TrueType dingbat font designed at Microsoft and published in 1997 Wingdings, a TrueType dingbat font assembled by Microsoft...
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Variable font (redirect from OpenType Font Variations)
Apple's TrueType GX font variations. The technology was adapted to OpenType as OpenType variable fonts (OTVF) in version 1.8 of the OpenType specification...
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bitmap and TrueType versions for various platforms. Originally developed as shareware by Andrew Welch for the Apple Macintosh in TrueType format, ProFont...
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PostScript (category Dynamically typed programming languages)
their own system, TrueType, around 1991. Immediately following the announcement of TrueType, Adobe published the specification for the Type 1 font format...
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Format (WOFF) is a font format for use in web pages. WOFF files are OpenType or TrueType fonts, with format-specific compression applied and additional XML...
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capabilities improved, Apple commissioned the type foundry Bigelow & Holmes to create a vector-based TrueType version. The typeface is named after the U...
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system supporting installation of "exe" or ".sit.hqx" files and supporting TrueType fonts. The downloadable files are still available legally from third-party...
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Marlett is a TrueType font that has been used in Microsoft Windows since Windows 95. The operating system uses this font to create user interface icons...
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OpenType is a superset of TrueType kern tables are still supported for TrueType fonts packed as OpenType; however, PostScript-based (CFF) OpenType fonts...
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electronic publishing company specializing in indie roleplaying games and TrueType fonts. In 1993, S. John Ross wrote a light-hearted role-playing game called...
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font to TrueType format using FontForge. Paul Hardy adjusted these scripts to handle combining characters (accents, etc.) for the latest TrueType versions...
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Microsoft's ClearType website Fondu – program to convert (and separate) Mac OS X dfont data fork files to TrueType, OpenType, Type 1, and Glyph Bitmap...
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fonts", although as the maximum number of glyphs that can be defined in a TrueType font is restricted to 65,535, it is not possible for a single font to provide...
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