TrueType
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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.
| Filename extension | .ttf & .tte (for EUDC usage) for Microsoft Windows, .dfont for macOS |
|---|---|
| Internet media type |
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| Type code | TFIL |
| Uniform Type Identifier (UTI) | public.truetype-ttf-font |
| Developed by | Apple |
| Type of format | outline font |
| Extended from | SFNT |
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.