Fonts
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=== Tools === | === Tools === | ||
* [http://www.typesample.com/ Type Sample: tool for identifying and sampling web fonts] | * [http://www.typesample.com/ Type Sample: tool for identifying and sampling web fonts] | ||
| + | * [https://xelitan.com/app/xelitan-font-view Xelitan Font View - opens TTF, OTF, WOFF, WOFF2 and SVG fonts, saves to OTF, WOFF, WOFF2 and SVG fonts] | ||
=== Commentary === | === Commentary === | ||
Latest revision as of 09:18, 10 September 2026
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.
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[edit] Font formats
- Acorn Font
- Adobe Type 1 (PostScript Type 1, ATM, .pfb, .pfm, .afm)
- Amiga bitmap font
- BDF
- BRFNT
- ByteMap font format [1]
- Bitstream compressed outline (.bco)
- 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
- DRFONT
- Embedded OpenType (EOT)
- EVAfont driver
- F3 font
- FIGlet font
- FNT (Windows Font)
- FONTASY font (.fy*)
- FONTEDIT font
- FontEdit II COM file
- 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)
- OS/2 PM Font
- PaintJet soft font (.pjf)
- PC Screen Font
- PCF
- PCR font
- PFF2 (.pf2)
- PFR (TrueDoc)
- PK font
- PostScript font
- Raw Bitmap Font (.rbf)
- sfnt
- Signum font
- Slug fonts (.slug)
- 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
[edit] Font metrics
- AFM, PFM: See Adobe Type 1
- TeX Font Metrics (.tfm)
[edit] Glyph formats
- Glyph Interchange Format (.glif)
[edit] Other formats
- Adobe Font List (.lst)
[edit] Links
[edit] 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.
[edit] Tools
- Type Sample: tool for identifying and sampling web fonts
- Xelitan Font View - opens TTF, OTF, WOFF, WOFF2 and SVG fonts, saves to OTF, WOFF, WOFF2 and SVG fonts
[edit] 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)
[edit] Humor
[edit] 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)
