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
• Adobe Type 1 (PFB, PFM, AFM)
• Amiga bitmap font
• BDF
• ChiWriter font
• CID, TFM, OFM, OVF, OVP, MetaFont TeX Fonts and support data
• dfont
• Embedded OpenType
• FON (Windows bitmap fonts)
• GEOS Font
• IntelliFont
• 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)