Fonts

Revision as of 02:19, 18 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
• 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