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Identifont. The Identifont web site is an online directory of typefaces, with main function a tool to help identify a font from a sample. [1] It has been described as the largest Internet directory of typefaces. [2] Identifont may be used to find a font similar to a given one. [3] It also allows potential purchasers to make comparisons of ...
MyFonts is a digital fonts distributor, based in Woburn, Massachusetts. It was created by Bitstream Inc., launched in September 1999 (during the ATypI conference in Boston ), and started selling fonts in March 2000. In November 2011, Monotype Imaging announced plans to acquire MyFonts and the other font-related parts of Bitstream for $50 ...
Font embedding is a controversial practice because it allows copyrighted fonts to be freely distributed. The controversy can be mitigated by only embedding the characters required to view the document ( subsetting ). This reduces file size but prohibits adding previously unused characters to the document. Because of the potential for copyright ...
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 description. This often involves some anti-aliasing on screen text to make it smoother and easier to read. It may also involve hinting —information embedded in the font data that optimizes ...
Metafont. Metafont is a description language used to define raster fonts. It is also the name of the interpreter that executes Metafont code, generating the bitmap fonts that can be embedded into e.g. PostScript. Metafont was devised by Donald Knuth as a companion to his TeX typesetting system. One of the characteristics of Metafont is that the ...
Web Embedding Fonts Tool. The Web Embedding Fonts Tool, or WEFT, is Microsoft's utility for generating embeddable web fonts. WEFT is used by webmasters to create 'font objects' that are linked to their web pages so that users using Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser will see the pages displayed in the font style contained within the font ...
Property and Property law. v. t. e. Typefaces, fonts, and their glyphs raise intellectual property considerations in copyright, trademark, design patent, and related laws. The copyright status of a typeface and of any font file that describes it digitally varies between jurisdictions.
Reverse-contrast typefaces. Reverse-contrast "Italian" type in an 1828 specimen book by the George Bruce company of New York. [1] Shown below it is a "fat face" design, a type also popular in early 19th century printing. [2] [3] Both typefaces are very bold, but the fat face's thick lines are the verticals as normal and the Italian's are the ...