However, OpenType fonts are now favored by designers and publishers because of advanced typographic capabilities, such as true small caps and old-style figures, and better support for non-English glyphs. This resulted in the OpenType font format, which is an open standard that makes it easier for more companies to create fonts.Ī wide variety of inexpensive fonts are available in TrueType format. As personal computers and publishing software became more powerful and typographical standards advanced, Microsoft and Adobe worked together to advance type capabilities beyond the limitations of the PostScript and TrueType font formats. TrueType is ubiquitous because it started out as an Apple font format and was later licensed by Microsoft both companies made TrueType the standard font format for their operating systems. The most common font format in use today is TrueType, which is now found on just about every Windows and Mac OS X system. PostScript fonts made it possible to scale type to any size while preserving smooth curves and sharp edges. The earliest high-quality fonts used for personal-computer-based print publishing were Adobe PostScript fonts. Several desktop font formats have been used for print publishing and general personal computer use over the last 20 years. These are the most established kinds of fonts for personal computers and are sometimes called system fonts or desktop fonts.
When you apply fonts to text in primarily print-oriented Adobe Creative Cloud software, such as Adobe Photoshop CC or Adobe InDesign CC (or your word processor), you typically use fonts that were designed to be installed and viewed on a desktop or laptop computer. Adobe Creative Cloud stays in step with these changes by providing a variety of fonts for print, online, and mobile use.
Whether you’re new to digital fonts or a veteran of print and online publishing, the use of digital fonts has changed dramatically in recent years with new font formats and new ways to use them. Choosing font formats for creative projects See “Getting Started” at the beginning of the book. If you have not already downloaded the project files for this lesson to your computer from your Account page, make sure you do so now.
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