This topic describes OpenType variable fonts, their support in DirectWrite and Direct2D, and how to use them in your app. Version 1.8 of the OpenType font format specification introduced a new ...

OpenType Font (OTF) and TrueType Font (TTF) are two different file formats for representing fonts on computers. But if you want to know which format to choose, there isn’t an easy answer. Those ...

The OpenType SVG Font Editor is a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app for embedding SVG glyphs in an OpenType font. It was designed to simplify the process of creating SVG-based icon fonts, with web ...

Generally speaking, file formats don’t impact a great deal on day-to-day computing. The majority of file types can be made to work independently of operating systems or software. Exceptions exist: ...

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 ...

Several users have reported an issue where documents that use various OpenType fonts do not open or display properly -- or even cause issues with applications failing to launch or unexpectedly ...

As the bugs targeted by minor releases to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard become increasingly specific, it’s easy to become complacent about the possibility of an update introducing a new problem. That, ...