Fonts

Revision as of 22:39, 7 March 2015

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
• CHR (Borland font)
• CID, TFM, OFM, OVF, OVP, MetaFont TeX Fonts and support data
• Data Fork Suitcase font (OS X, .dfont)
• dfont
• Embedded OpenType
• F3 font
• 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
• PFF2
• PostScript font
• sfnt
• SNF
• Speedo (.spd)
• TheDraw font (.tdf)
• TrueType (.ttf)
• Web Open Font Format

See Wikipedia for more.

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)