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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.
Old Standard TT: GPL, OFL: 2011-04-30 / 2.2 A Unicode font family for classical, medieval and Slavic studies; based upon Century — alternative download at fontspace.com. An unofficial extension, New Standard, is available at 1001Fonts and includes an expanded character set. Overpass: OFL: Commissioned by Red Hat as FOSS alternative to Interstate.
Century is a family of serif type faces particularly intended for body text. The family originates from a first design, Century Roman, cut by American Type Founders designer Linn Boyd Benton in 1894 for master printer Theodore Low De Vinne, for use in The Century Magazine. [1]
Fonts that use these mechanisms are commonly referred to as "Variable fonts". OpenType Font Variations re-introduces techniques that were previously developed by Apple in TrueType GX, and by Adobe in Multiple Master fonts. The common idea of these formats is that a single font includes data to describe multiple variations of a glyph outline ...
Engravers Old English (1906, Benton), based upon Caslon Text and designed in association with "Cowan" or perhaps Phinney. Engravers Old English Bold (1910, Benton) Engravers Shaded (1906, Benton) Lithographic Shaded (1914, Benton + W. F. Capitian), a half-shaded version of Engravers Shaded. Engravers Text (1930, Benton) Flemish Black (1902 ...
This category contains typefaces in the old style serif classification, including both Venetian and Garalde varieties. These faces date back to 1465 and are reminiscent of the humanist calligraphy. This is not for any "old" typeface, such as old English or Fraktur. For that, please see Category:Blackletter typefaces.
Bookman, or Bookman Old Style, is a serif typeface.A wide, legible design that is slightly bolder than most body text faces, Bookman has been used for both display typography, for trade printing such as advertising, and less commonly for body text.
IBM did not trademark the name Courier, so the typeface design concept and its name are now public domain. [3] According to some sources, a later version for IBM's Selectric typewriters was developed with input from Adrian Frutiger, although Paul Shaw writes that this is a confusion with Frutiger's adaptation of his Univers typeface for the Selectric system.