If you create documents or graphics for your clients in your business, you can install and use custom fonts to make your designs more interesting. TrueType technology -- TTF extension -- was developed ...

In a PDF document, there are essentially two ways to display text. One way is to embed the text, including its font information, in the document file. The other way is to display the text as an image, ...

There are quite a few font formats out there, and two of the most popular are TTF and WOFF. Now, many users would love to download and use WOFF fonts on their Windows 11 or Windows 10 computers, but ...

Regarding our previous item on getting fonts to launch X Font Info when you double-click them: After doing the conversion for a TrueType (.tt) font (copied from his OS 9 System Folder), Rob Griffiths ...

An trio of tips and queries regarding fonts in Mac OS X: Displaying "graphic" fonts in Cocoa applications For several weeks now, we have been a bit mystified by the fact that we could not select nor ...

Efforts to bring advanced typography to the Web have reached an important milestone. Type designers Tal Leming and Erik van Blokland, who had been working to developing the .webfont format, combined ...

Displaying custom fonts or images on an LCD screen using a microcontroller usually requires quite a bit of work. We’ve used some readily available tools to make this a bit easier for your next project ...

If you want to know about the history of desktop publishing, you need to know about Adobe’s PostScript fonts. PostScript fonts used vector graphics so that they could look crisp and clear no matter ...

It’s time for another grab bag, selected from the many questions I get from readers. In this week’s column, I look at some questions about font size in iTunes (spoiler: your options are limited), ...