Fonts
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* O'Reilly, "Fonts and Encodings", Yannis Haralambous, ISBN 978-0-596-10242-5 | * O'Reilly, "Fonts and Encodings", Yannis Haralambous, ISBN 978-0-596-10242-5 | ||
* [http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-comic-sans-asshole I'm Comic Sans, Asshole!] | * [http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-comic-sans-asshole I'm Comic Sans, Asshole!] | ||
| + | * [http://comicneue.com/ Comic Neue: an attempted replacement for Comic Sans] | ||
* [http://reason.com/blog/2013/06/21/dont-want-the-nsa-to-read-your-email-use Don't Want the NSA to Read Your Documents? Use This Font.] | * [http://reason.com/blog/2013/06/21/dont-want-the-nsa-to-read-your-email-use Don't Want the NSA to Read Your Documents? Use This Font.] | ||
* [http://opendyslexic.org/ Open Dyslexic font; designed to be more easily readable by dyslexics] | * [http://opendyslexic.org/ Open Dyslexic font; designed to be more easily readable by dyslexics] | ||
Revision as of 12:26, 7 April 2014
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
- Adobe Type 1 (PFB, PFM, AFM)
- BDF
- ChiWriter font
- CID, TFM, OFM, OVF, OVP, MetaFont TeX Fonts and support data
- dfont
- Embedded OpenType
- FON (Windows bitmap fonts)
- GEOS Font
- OpenType (.otf)
- Open Font Format
- sfnt
- TheDraw font (.tdf)
- TrueType (.ttf)
- 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!
- Comic Neue: an attempted replacement for Comic Sans
- 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
- Creating a font from a classic comic
- The science behind fonts (and how they make you feel)
