Everything about PostScript fonts

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: PostScript fontsA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: The designer's guide to PostScript text typeThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: Stretching letter and slanted-baseline formatting for Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian with ditroff/ffortid and dynamic PostScript fontsCited 4 times
4. Go sideways: Glyph Bitmap Distribution FormatA closely related topic
5. Go sideways: TrueTypeA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Stretching letter and slanted-baseline formatting for Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian with ditroff/ffortid and dynamic PostScript fonts

  Daniel M. Berry · 1999 · Software: Practice and Experience · 4 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The designer's guide to PostScript text typeJean Callan King · 1993
• The Postscript font handbookJonathan Grosvenor · 1992
• 📕Charles Nypels Prijs 1998 = · 1998
• Digital type design guideSean Cavanaugh, Ken Oyer · 1995
• IdentaFONTDon Wansick · 1995
• 📕TektonFrancis D. K. Ching · 1990
• The PostScript typeface libraryTony Esposito · 1994
• 📕The Windows 3.1 font bookDavid Angell · 1992

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

🔗 Related topics

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• OpenType OpenType is a format for scalable computer fonts. Derived from TrueType, it retains TrueType's basic structure but adds many intricate data structures…
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• Source Han Serif Source Han Serif (also known as Noto Serif CJK) is a serif Song/Ming typeface created by Adobe and Google. Latin-script letters and numerals are from the…
• Arial Arial is a sans-serif typeface in the neo-grotesque style. Fonts from the Arial family are included with all versions of Microsoft Windows after Windows…
• PostScript PostScript (PS) is a page description language and dynamically typed, stack-based programming language. It is most commonly used in the electronic publishing…