TrueType

TrueType
Filename extension.ttf & .tte (for EUDC usage) for Microsoft Windows, .dfont for macOS
Internet media type
  • font/ttf
  • font/sfnt
  • application/x-font-ttf
  • application/font-sfnt (deprecated)
[1]
Type codeTFIL
Uniform Type Identifier (UTI)public.truetype-ttf-font
Developed byApple
Type of formatoutline font
Extended fromSFNT
Extended toOpenType

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.

The primary strength of TrueType was originally that it offered font developers a high degree of control over precisely how their fonts are displayed, right down to particular pixels, at various font sizes. With widely varying rendering technologies in use today, pixel-level control is no longer certain in a TrueType font.

  1. ^ "Media Types". IANA. 2017-10-12. Retrieved 2017-10-17.

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