Fonts
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* [[PFB]], [[PFM (Printer Font Metrics)|PFM]], [[AFM]], [[BDF]] (Adobe font formats) | * [[PFB]], [[PFM (Printer Font Metrics)|PFM]], [[AFM]], [[BDF]] (Adobe font formats) | ||
* [[sfnt]] | * [[sfnt]] | ||
| + | * [[TheDraw font]] (.tdf) | ||
* [[TTF|TrueType]] | * [[TTF|TrueType]] | ||
* [[WOFF|Web Open Font Format]] | * [[WOFF|Web Open Font Format]] | ||
Revision as of 14:54, 7 December 2013
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
- TheDraw font (.tdf)
- 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
