Font basics

Technical background information on font formats, their OS support, history or their management.

Fonts formats

• OpenType
• TrueType
• Type 1
• Type 3
• Multiple Master
• Dfont
• Other PostScript font formats

Operating systems, applications and fonts

• Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
• Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
• iOS 4
• Microsoft Vista
• Microsoft Windows 7
• Fonts in PDF

Font management utilities

• An overview of various tools on the market, including pointers to recent reviews

The history of fonts

• From the early days of PostScript till now

Name that glyph!

• What does an ampersand look like? How do you call that weird character that looks like a wobbly line? This overview shows a table of character shapes or glyphs along with their ASCII-code and name.