TrueType hints come in the form of little programs which move the points around based on the point size and resolution. This allows the designer complete control over how the outlines react to different sizes.
As we’ve discussed before, PDF files can contain a whole bunch of different fonts, but in the end most of them come down to two categories – Type 1 based formats, and TrueType based formats. All of the formats our font converter generates are OpenType based, which allows you to use either Type 1 glyphs or TrueType glyphs…
In the early days of fonts, each glyph was stored as a bitmap at a range of sizes. Drawing it was a simple case of picking the right sized image of the glyph and putting it on the screen. This let designers add and remove details at various sizes to make the text readable. Most…
Everyone knows a bit about fonts, but understanding them in more detail is a bit of a niche subject. Niche subjects tend to come with their own language, and fonts are no exception – here’s a few common confusions about font terminology. Font vs. Typeface Simply put, ‘Times New Roman’ is a typeface, and ‘TimesNewRoman.otf’…
Here at IDRSolutions, we like our screens BIG. Part of the reason for that is that the sort of work we do tends to need you to see many different pieces of information at once. A prime example of this is working on our TrueType Hinting engine, which we previously discussed on this blog. TrueType…
A while back we put a lot of effort into implementing some of the hinting technology in the TrueType specification. This system effectively uses small programs in a stack based environment to manipulate the set of points which define the contours of a glyph. Up until recently, some of the instructions available in the language…
