Postscript is all but gone, and today, newer font standards such as TrueType and OpenType rule the roost. Here's how we got from desktop PostScript in the early '80s to today. When the Mac first ...

Since the days of individual cast-metal fonts for each size of your typeface, type-enthusiasts have dreamed of ways of creating nicer, more elegant, more useful, more unique glyphs. Nowadays, you can ...

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Slowly, but surely, web browsers are creeping towards some form of parity when it comes to using custom fonts in CSS. It's rather disturbing how long it's taken considering that dynamic fonts were ...

A scalable font technology from Adobe that renders fonts for both the printer and the screen. PostScript fonts come in Type 1 and Type 3 formats. Type 1 fonts use a simple, efficient command language ...

Along with the typographic freedom Mac users have always enjoyed, there have often been strange font conflicts, inexplicable font substitutions, and even system crashes related to corrupt fonts. Mac ...

EOT, or Embedded OpenType, fonts provide a way for you to spice up your websites using the same attractive and compelling fonts you can use in word processor documents. Website text that uses an ...

and double-click on the Fonts icon. The fonts with icons displaying a double `T' are the TrueType fonts. In SAS/GRAPH programs, you can use the font name to specify a TrueType font with the FONT= or ...

I can't seem to get aterm to use Truetype fonts at any sizes other than 0 and 12. Nor will many of my fonts work at normal horizontal spacing; they're forced to this expanded setting (whatever 'p' ...