Fonts

Fonts describe how text looks (as opposed to how the characters are represented in text, which is the area of character encodings). There are a number of formats that describe fonts for computers.

Font formats

 * Acorn Font
 * Adobe Type 1 (PostScript Type 1, ATM, .pfb, .pfm, .afm)
 * Amiga bitmap font
 * BDF
 * BRFNT
 * ByteMap font format
 * Calamus Font (.cfn)
 * CHET font
 * ChiWriter font
 * CHR (Borland font)
 * CID, TFM, OFM, OVF, OVP, Metafont - TeX Fonts and support data
 * CPI
 * Daisy-Dot font
 * Data Fork Suitcase font (OS X, .dfont)
 * dfont
 * Embedded OpenType (EOT)
 * F3 font
 * FIGlet font
 * FNT (Windows Font)
 * FONTASY font (.fy*)
 * FontLab (.vfb)
 * Font Mania (REXXCOM)
 * Fontographer (.fog)
 * FON (Windows Font with NE/PE container)
 * Font Suitcase (Mac pre-OS X, uses resource fork)
 * GEM bitmap font (.fnt)
 * GEOS Font
 * GRASP font
 * HEX (Unifont)
 * IntelliFont
 * Interlace Character Editor font
 * MPlayer bitmap font
 * Open Font Format
 * OpenType (.otf)
 * PaintJet soft font (.pjf)
 * PC Screen Font
 * PCF
 * PCR font
 * PFF2 (.pf2)
 * PFR (TrueDoc)
 * PK font
 * PostScript font
 * sfnt
 * Signum font
 * SNF
 * Speedo (.spd)
 * Spline Font Database (.sfd)
 * TexFont (.txf)
 * TheDraw font (.tdf)
 * TrueType (.ttf)
 * Unified Font Object (.ufo, .ufoz)
 * BSD / Sun vfont
 * Web Open Font Format (WOFF)
 * WFN
 * WGT Font (.wfn)
 * XFT Expert 3D Font

Font metrics

 * AFM, PFM: See Adobe Type 1
 * TeX Font Metrics (.tfm)

Glyph formats

 * Glyph Interchange Format (.glif)

Other formats

 * Adobe Font List (.lst)

Fonts

 * Comic Neue: an attempted replacement for Comic Sans
 * Open Dyslexic font; designed to be more easily readable by dyslexics
 * Don't Want the NSA to Read Your Documents? Use This Font.

Tools

 * Type Sample: tool for identifying and sampling web fonts

Commentary

 * Times is on my side
 * What are the best programming fonts?
 * Top 10 programming fonts
 * 5 Genuinely Offensive Font Choices That Must Be Stopped
 * This font has a big Impact on memes
 * Color Emoji in Windows 8.1—The Future of Color Fonts?
 * The science behind fonts (and how they make you feel)

Humor

 * I'm Comic Sans, Asshole!
 * Sans Bullshit Sans: leveraging the synergy of ligatures

Other links

 * O'Reilly, "Fonts and Encodings", Yannis Haralambous, ISBN 978-0-596-10242-5
 * Travelling Font Salesman - Typographic Book
 * Creating a font from a classic comic
 * Webfonts: Making Wikimedia projects readable for everyone
 * Typography in 8 bits: System fonts
 * FreeType 2: Supported Font Formats
 * Magic sequences for font formats recognized by file command
 * KB3013455 (MS15-010) causes font corruption (Windows)