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Digital Type
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Digital Type Basics
• There are several types of digital fonts:•Adobe Type 1 (PostScript) (Mac or PC)
• True Type (Mac or PC)
•Open Type
• .d (Dot ‘D’) (Apple Creation)
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Adobe Type 1• Each font consist of two parts:
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Screen Fonts• Display type on the screen (monitor).
• Stored and displayed as 72 dpi bitmaps (rasters).
FFIL
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Screen Fonts
• Fonts reside in the Mac's Operating System, load into RAM.
• They DO NOT move with the document unless embedded.
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Printer Fonts• Consist of vector outlines of each
character stored in PostScript code.
• PostScript or Outline fonts.
Printer FontGLYPH
LWFN
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Printer Fonts
• Should be stored with matching screen fonts.
• Both screen and printer fonts must be IDENTICAL matches to each other (manufacturer, version, etc.).
• Mac OSX does not allow orphan fonts to be used
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True Type™
• True Type™ was introduced by Apple with System 7.0.
• True Type™ fonts handle both screen
display and printing.
• It allows for "non-jaggy" screen display.
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True Type™• Can have different character
widths than Type 1 fonts of the same name.
• Create with True Type™ print using Type 1 fonts can have re-wrapped text or bad Kerning.
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True Type™
• TrueType Collection.
• A .ttc file contains a number of related typefaces, such as the regular, bold and italic variants of a particular typeface, in one single font file.
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Open Type
•Newest font format
• Cross Platform• Still comes in True Type or
PostScript “Flavors”
Open Type.ttf
Open Type.otf
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.d Fonts• Apple creation
• Avoid if possible
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Font Identification in InDesign
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Font Usage• Using the Styles menu can result in
unexpected output
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Type Management
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Font Legalities• Fonts are licensed
•Illegal to use copied fonts
• Piracy in business
• Embedding fonts - PDF / Illustrator™
• Subsets
• Embed yes/no Flag
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Web Safe Fonts• Fonts common to most Window and
Mac computers
• Fonts designed specifically for web• Verdana, Tahoma, Trebuchet MS, and
Georgia
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Fonts In Applications• Fonts in InDesign, Illustrator, & PDF are
vectors
• Fonts in PhotoShop are vector until flattened or saved as a file format other than .psd
•When save from PhotoShop as a .tif or .jpeg the fonts become raster images