Fonts

File Format
Name	Fonts
Ontology	Electronic File Formats 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)
• OpenType
• Open File 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!