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.

Font formats

• Acorn Font
• Adobe Type 1 (PostScript Type 1, ATM, .pfb, .pfm, .afm)
• Amiga bitmap font
• BDF
• Calamus Font (.cfn)
• ChiWriter font
• CHR (Borland font)
• CID, TFM, OFM, OVF, OVP, MetaFont TeX Fonts and support data
• CPI
• Data Fork Suitcase font (OS X, .dfont)
• dfont
• Embedded OpenType (EOT)
• F3 font
• FNT (Windows Font)
• FON (Windows Font with NE/PE container)
• Font Suitcase (Mac pre-OS X, uses resource fork)
• GEM bitmap font (.fnt)
• GEOS Font
• GRASP font
• IntelliFont
• Open Font Format
• OpenType (.otf)
• PaintJet soft font (.pjf)
• PC Screen Font
• PCF
• PFF2 (.pf2)
• PK font
• PostScript font
• sfnt
• Signum font
• SNF
• Speedo (.spd)
• TheDraw font (.tdf)
• TrueType (.ttf)
• Web Open Font Format

Font metrics

• AFM, PFM: See Adobe Type 1
• TeX Font Metrics (.tfm)

Glyph formats

• Glyph Interchange Format (.glif)

Links

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.

Tools

• Type Sample: tool for identifying and sampling web fonts

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)

Humor

• I'm Comic Sans, Asshole!
• Sans Bullshit Sans: leveraging the synergy of ligatures

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)