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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