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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.
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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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Given you only want to use caps in your comic, a simple solution to add a little variation could be:
create two different uppercase forms for each letter
assign one to the letter's uppercase slot, and the other to the letter's lowercase slot
create your lettering using a mix of uppercase and lowercase characters
You could probably randomise thE mIx to ...
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Not only would you need to use a font which has multiple glyphs for the same character but your application would need to support this feature too.
InDesign and Illustrator both have a Glyphs palette that allow you to manually select an alternate glyph for any character in your text. However this would be quite a labour intensive process if you were setting ...
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OpenType is a font format jointly developed by Microsoft and Adobe as an extension to Apple's TrueType font format.
And please check these links:
OpenType Font language support
table from the PDF leaflet for your
handy reference
What is open type
OpenType Tips, Techniques,
and Resources
Beginners Guide to OpenType
OpenType Font Features
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Opentype fonts allow for many contextual alternate forms of each glyph, and rules to determine when they are automatically substituted for the default glyph form.
As far as I am aware any application which supports OT fonts will support these features.
While you'd normally have only a few letters with a contextual alternate, it's theoretically possible to ...
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I believe what you're describing is the contextual alternates feature of opentype. ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms745109.aspx )
Nick Shinn has a really interesting article on many of the features available using contextual alternates, and how he used it in five fonts he designed. Duffy Script in particular was used in the way you're ...
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I haven't played with the randomize function but I have gotten some good results with extensive use of ligatures.
Most the variation in handwriting is related to context: this follows that, that follows this, this is the end of the word, etc. OpenType ligatures can accomodate for a lot of variation if you're willing to plan it out well.
There is also the ...
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Ink traps are a device to compensate for over-absorbent papers and metal type in letterpress printing. They are mostly irrelevant for offset presses. James Felici has an excellent summary in "The Complete Manual of Typography" (highly recommended for anyone working with type). They are mostly irrelevant today, unless you are working on a letterpress project.
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“Concerned” – not so much… “Aware” – definately. The fact is really good fonts should have shapes matched to their physical size. Simple scaling can't always do the trick, or rather: rarely can. Take, for example, Computer Modern. This font has variants intended for use at, among others, 6 and 11 points (AFAICR). Glyph shapes (especially proportion wise) are ...
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