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.


 * Acorn Font
 * BDF
 * CID, TFM, OFM, OVF, OVP, MetaFont TeX Fonts and support data
 * dfont
 * Embedded OpenType
 * FON (Windows bitmap fonts)
 * GEOS Font
 * OpenType
 * Open Font Format
 * PFB, PFM, AFM, BDF (Adobe font formats)
 * sfnt
 * TrueType
 * Web Open Font Format

See Wikipedia for more.

Resources

 * O'Reilly, "Fonts and Encodings", Yannis Haralambous, ISBN 978-0-596-10242-5
 * I'm Comic Sans, Asshole!
 * Don't Want the NSA to Read Your Documents? Use This Font.
 * Open Dyslexic font; designed to be more easily readable by dyslexics
 * Top 10 programming fonts
 * What are the best programming fonts?
 * 5 Genuinely Offensive Font Choices That Must Be Stopped
 * Travelling Font Salesman - Typographic Book