Font formats, viewers and editors.
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/175311/which-font-extension-is-used-on-both-pc-and-mac
How the computer encodes the formats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_font:
- bitmap: matrix of pixels. Cheap to render. Does not scale well.
- outline: the contour of the font is described with mathematical equations. Scales well, more expensive to render.
- stroke: TODO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueType
Developed by Apple and Microsoft in the 80's, competitor to Type 1.
Outline font, modelled by quadratic Bézier curves (3 points per segment)
Contains a programmable extension... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueType#Hinting_language Reminds me of shading languages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenType
Derived from TrueType.
Registered by Microsoft and Adobe.
Outline font, modelled by cubic Bézier curves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_OpenType
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript_fonts
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css3_fonts.asp
W3C rec. This is what you should use for the web according to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@font-face
TODO.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/3697/how-do-i-install-fonts
Supports both ttf and otf.
Location:
~/.fonts~/.local/share/fonts/usr/share/fonts
The file name does not seem to matter, as files contain their nice name as metadata, and utilities show that instead.
See also:
~/fonts.conf~/fontconfig
How to try it them out: open any program that allows you to select fonts, and it shows on the font list. E.g. Gedit, LibreOffice, etc.
Font Cache.
fontconfig package.
TODO what is it.
- https://www.google.com/fonts
woff2. - https://fontlibrary.org/
otf - https://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/
http://askubuntu.com/questions/171090/is-there-any-good-font-editor
http://askubuntu.com/questions/134549/is-it-legal-to-install-msttcorefonts-package-is-wine-legal