TrueType Font
Also known as .ttf, TTF, .tte, .dfont
TrueType is an outline font standard developed by Apple in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's Type 1 fonts used in PostScript. It has become the most common format for fonts on the classic Mac OS, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems.
Key facts
- File format.owner
- Apple
- File format.extension
- .ttf & .tte (for EUDC usage) for Microsoft Windows, .dfont for macOS
- File format._noextcode
- yes
- File format._nomimecode
- yes
- File format.type code
- TFIL
- File format.uniform type
- public.truetype-ttf-font
- File format.genre
- outline font
- File format.extended from
- SFNT
- File format.extended to
- OpenType
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17 sectionsContents
- History
- Adoption by Microsoft
- Platform support
- Macintosh and Microsoft Windows
- Linux and other platforms
- Outlines
- Hinting language
- Embedding protection
- Emoji
- File formats
- Basic
- Collection
- Suitcase
- PostScript
- See also
- References
- External links
TrueType is an outline font standard developed by Apple in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's Type 1 fonts used in PostScript. It has become the most common format for fonts on the classic Mac OS, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems.
The primary strength of TrueType was originally that it offered font developers a high degree of control over precisely how their fonts are displayed, right down to particular pixels, at various font sizes. With widely varying rendering technologies in use today, pixel-level control is no longer certain in a TrueType font.