![]() An ‘acute e’ could be composed of the glyphs for ‘e’ and ‘acute’. A glyph may consist of references to other glyphs which are combined to make the new compound glyph. Drawing the glyphs is an art in its own right.Īnother way that a glyph may be specified is in terms of other component glyphs. The paths are filled with pixels to create the final letter form. A lower case ‘i’ has two paths, one for the dot and one for the rest of it. A path is simply a closed curve specified using points and particular mathematics. TrueType fonts describe each glyph as a set of paths. 1 Glyphs (‘glyf’)Īll fonts contain glyphs. For more details, see the reference documentation ( Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, ISO/IEC). This section is only concerned with the tables which were part of the original TrueType specification and which are still used in OpenType, AAT, and Graphite to describe glyphs and provide general font data. SIL’s Graphite smart rendering system works by adding tables, too. Apple also added tables to TrueType to support a different smart rendering system producing the Apple Advanced Typography ( AAT) font specification. The new specification, which added more tables, was called OpenType. Later Microsoft and Adobe expanded the specification to support smart rendering and PostScript glyphs. The TrueType specification was developed by Apple and adopted by Microsoft. ![]() Each table and the whole font have checksums. The file may contain only one table of each type, and the type is indicated by a case-sensitive four letter tag. There is a directory of tables at the start of the file. A TrueType font is a binary file containing a number of tables. ![]() TrueType fonts are scalable which means the glyphs can be displayed at any resolution and any point size (though the glyphs may not look good in extreme cases). The primary font technology used on Microsoft Windows and the Mac OS is based on the TrueType specification.
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