I know very little about typography. What are the differences in terms of opentype vs truetype. I do know that they are types of formats to render fonts (correct me if i'm wrong).
Are there limitations between opentype and truetype?
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Adobe offers some great readin on type formats: See Adobe explanations here I hesitate to simply answer with a link, but there's so much information which could be posted based on the somewhat open-ended question...... |
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They are file formats for storing font information. TrueType was invented by Apple as a competition to Adobe's PostScript Type1. Both TrueType and PostScript fonts became the standard file formats for fonts for the past 3 decades or so of desktop publishing. In terms of your average designer, the differences between the two are relatively unimportant. OpenType was designed to replace these and was created initially by Adobe and Microsoft. It's basically a newer format that is more robust. For a designer, the primary benefits of OpenType over previous formats are a) an much larger character set and b) automatic alternative character and ligature support (for software that supports it). Wikipedia covers it well: |
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