OpenType
Modern font standard
OpenType is a font format developed jointly by Microsoft and Adobe, now the standard for digital typography.
OpenType fonts work across operating systems and can contain thousands of characters, including ligatures, small caps, and alternate letterforms.
The format supports both outline types used in earlier formats—TrueType and PostScript—unified under one file extension.
Letter-pair spacing adjustment
- trackingMonitoring location over time
- leadingGuiding or pacing type
- baselineStandard for comparison
- x-heightLowercase letter body dimension
ascender · descender · glyph · serif · sans-serif · italic · boldface · roman
Cord for binding
- swashWater flowing over ground
- small-capsLowercase-height capital letters
- titlingAssigning a name
- ordinalsPosition-indicating numbers
fractions · case-sensitive · superscript · subscript · ornaments
Nature, symbol, or role
Major graphics software maker
Vector-based typeface format
- PostScriptPrinter instruction language
- cross-platformWorks on multiple systems
- interoperabilityCross-platform functional harmony
- backward-compatibleFunctions with prior versions
kerning
Letter-pair spacing adjustment
x-height · ascender · descender · glyph · serif · sans-serif · italic · boldface · roman · script
ligature
Cord for binding
- swashWater flowing over ground
- small-capsLowercase-height capital letters
- titlingAssigning a name
ordinals · fractions · case-sensitive · superscript · subscript · ornaments
character
Nature, symbol, or role
vector · scalable · hinting · rasterization
Adobe
Major graphics software maker
TrueType
Vector-based typeface format
- PostScriptPrinter instruction language
- cross-platformWorks on multiple systems
- interoperabilityCross-platform functional harmony
Latin
Ancient Roman language
Ethiopic · Tamil · Bengali · Cyrillic · Greek · Armenian · Georgian · Khmer · Myanmar · right-to-left
- typographyletters, font, calligraphy, font design, sans serif
- typesettingtypesetting, typesetter, leading, font, kerning
- fontsHelvetica, Arial, Georgia, Verdana, Times
- Indic scriptsBengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil
- text encodingUTF-8, ASCII, encoding, character set, charset