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Fonts describe how text looks (as opposed to how the characters are represented in text, which is the area of [[Character Encoding]]s). There are a number of formats that describe fonts for computers. | Fonts describe how text looks (as opposed to how the characters are represented in text, which is the area of [[Character Encoding]]s). There are a number of formats that describe fonts for computers. | ||
Revision as of 16:31, 29 November 2012
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)
- OpenType
- Open File Format
- PFB, PFM, AFM, BDF (Adobe font formats)
- sfnt
- TrueType
- Web Open Font Format
See Wikipedia for more.
Resources
- O'Reilly, "Fonts and Encodings", Yannis Haralambous, ISBN 978-0-596-10242-5
