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Font formats
A summary of digital font formats, as of 2012: - Truetype, or TTF. TTC or TrueType Collection is often used for oriental languages.
- Opentype, orOTF. These come in two classes, one based on Truetype (and virtually identical to TTF), and CFF (or type 1)-flavored versions.
- Type 1, T1, or PostScript. This is Adobe's patented format from the early eighties. It includes a subclass of fonts called multiple masters.
- Work file formats. These are typecially text-editable formats undestood only by font generation programs. For example, FontLab has VFB, FontForge has SFD, Ikarus has its own format, RoboFont has UFO, and so forth.
- Scaleable Vector Graphics, or SVG.
- MetaFont by Don Knuth.
- Older bitmap font formats such as FON.
- Web only font formats such as EOT (Embedded OpenType, by Microsoft), and WOFF.
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