Everything about OpenType

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: OpenTypeA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Experiences typesetting OpenType math with LuaLaTeX and XeLaTeXInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Intelligence BulletinThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Analysis of Self-Oscillation Processes in a Cavity with a Flow of OpenType on the Basis of the Data of Vortex-Resolving CalculationsCited 4 times
5. Go sideways: Implementation of emojisA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: TrueTypeA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Analysis of Self-Oscillation Processes in a Cavity with a Flow of OpenType on the Basis of the Data of Vortex-Resolving Calculations

  B. N. Dan’kov, A. P. Duben’, T. K. Kozubskaya · 2023 · Fluid Dynamics · 4 citations

• Text Standards for the “Rest of World”: The Making of the Unicode Standard and the OpenType Format

  Anushah Hossain · 2024 · IEEE Annals of the History of Computing · 4 citations

• Toward automatic development of handwritten personal Farsi/Arabic OpenType $$^{\textregistered }$$ ® fonts

  Kazim Fouladi, Babak N. Araabi · 2015 · International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR) · 2 citations

• Arabic text justification using LuaLaTeX and the DigitalKhatt OpenType variable font

  Amine Anane · 2021 · TUGboat · 2 citations

• A compromise Arabic-Kazakh coded character processing method based on the OpenType font format

  Jun Dong, Tonghai Jiang, Li Cheng · 2018 · Computer Standards & Interfaces · 2 citations

• Fonts with complex OpenType tables

  Karel Píška · 2011 · Cahiers GUTenberg · 1 citations

• Using OpenType and TrueType fonts with XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX

  Herbert Voß · 2022 · TUGboat · 1 citations

• Standardizing OpenType math fonts

  Mikael P. Sundqvist, Hans Hagen · 2023 · TUGboat · 1 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Experiences typesetting OpenType math with LuaLaTeX and XeLaTeX

  Ulrik Vieth · 2022 · Cahiers GUTenberg · 0 citations

• My website exploring language support and more in libre TrueType and OpenType fonts: typosetting.co.uk

  Ken Moffat · 2024 · TUGboat · 0 citations

• Encoding Multilingualism: Technical Affordances of Multilingual Publication from Manuscripts to Unicode and OpenType

  Quinn Dombrowski, Manish Goregaokar, Ben Joeng (Yang) · 2024 · The Journal of Electronic Publishing · 0 citations

• SAYISAL TİPOGRAFİDE OPENTYPE DEĞİŞKEN FONTUN İŞLEVİ VE KATKISI NEDİR?

  Anıl Sarıkavak · 2022 · Art-e Sanat Dergisi · 0 citations

• الاستفادة من صيغة ال OpenType فى تحويل خطوط الاقلام لخطوط طباعية عربيه

  اميره مختار, نسرين عزت, تامر عبد اللطيف · 2024 · مجلة الفن و التصميم · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Intelligence BulletinUnited States. War Department. Military Intelligence Service · 1942
• From Gutenberg to opentypeRobin Dodd · 2006
• Plans for open-type poultry houseBurt W. Heywang · 1949
• Writing In InDesignDavid Bergsland · 2012
• 📕OpentypeMasṭerfonṭ Sṭudyo Rozenberg
• 📕Triaxial Testing of Open-Type Bituminous MixturesJoseph C. Oppenlander · 1958
• The 2007-2012 World Outlook for Automotive Open-Type Air-Conditioning CompressorsPhilip M. Parker · 2006
• The 2006-2011 World Outlook for Open-Type Compressors with All Refrigerants Excluding Ammonia · 2005

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