Fonts
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Revision as of 14:18, 28 December 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 (PostScript Type 1, ATM, .pfb, .pfm, .afm)
- Amiga bitmap font
- BDF
- ChiWriter font
- CID, TFM, OFM, OVF, OVP, MetaFont TeX Fonts and support data
- Data Fork Suitcase font (OS X, .dfont)
- dfont
- Embedded OpenType
- FNT (Windows Font)
- FON (Windows Font with NE/PE container)
- Font Suitcase (Mac pre-OS X, uses resource fork)
- GEOS Font
- IntelliFont
- Open Font Format
- OpenType (.otf)
- PC Screen Font
- PCF
- PostScript font
- sfnt
- SNF
- Speedo (.spd)
- 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
- Times is on my side
- 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)
- Webfonts: Making Wikimedia projects readable for everyone
- Typography in 8 bits: System fonts
- Color Emoji in Windows 8.1—The Future of Color Fonts?
- This font has a big Impact on memes
- FreeType 2: Supported Font Formats
- Magic sequences for font formats recognized by file command
