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TrueType is an outline font standard developed by Apple in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's Type 1 fonts used in PostScript. It has become the most common format for fonts on the classic Mac OS, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: TrueTypeA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Digital type design guideThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Hidden in Plain Sight: Scriptless Microarchitectural Attacks via TrueType Font HintingCited 2 times
- Go sideways: Fonts on MacintoshA closely related topic
- Go sideways: OpenTypeA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
No dictionary entry for this exact phrase.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Hidden in Plain Sight: Scriptless Microarchitectural Attacks via TrueType Font Hinting
Using OpenType and TrueType fonts with XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX
Encodings in Legacy Khmer TrueType Fonts. Investigation and Propose of Auto-Detection Algorithm
Creating TrueType Fonts For Use As Symbols in ArcGIS™
TrueType fonts, TeX and Czech languages
My website exploring language support and more in libre TrueType and OpenType fonts: typosetting.co.uk
Chinese TrueType font support in X window
Emulation of Adobe CID Resources by CJK TrueType Fonts. Practical Mappings from Adobe CIDs to TrueType GlyphIDs
📚 Books worth reading
Digital type design guideSean Cavanaugh, Ken Oyer · 1995
2000 True Type fonts & 5000 clip art images · 1994
Shareware Treasure ChestBud Aaron, Alex Aaron · 1992- 📕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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- PostScript fonts PostScript fonts are font files encoded in outline font specifications developed by Adobe for professional digital typesetting. This system uses the PostScript…
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- Computer font A computer font or digital font is a digital data file containing a set of graphically related glyphs, usually designed and created using a font editor…
- Subpixel rendering Subpixel rendering is a method used to increase the effective resolution of a color display device. It utilizes the composition of each pixel, which consists…
- Apple Advanced Typography Apple Advanced Typography (AAT) is Apple Inc.'s computer technology for advanced font rendering, supporting internationalization and complex features for…
- Font rasterization Font rasterization is the process of converting text from a vector description (as found in scalable fonts such as TrueType fonts) to a raster or bitmap…