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*is doing homework for her boring Typography class....blah*
*pats your head*
This chapter was a basic overview about fonts, and everything one would need to know about them. The first thing overviewed was the two basic kinds of fonts: Outline and Bitmaped. Bitmat fonts were created first by using dots/pixels to create an image of the letter. A problem with this process was that if a font needed to be re-sized, one needed a seperate set of bitmaps for every size one needed to create. Then Outlined fonts were created. Outline fonts store character images as outlines described mathematically as a series of curves and straight-line segments. These outlines can be mathematically scaled to any size without distorting the shapes or proportions of the characters. Each type of font has a character set that organizes each letter or symbol to a specific number. Most fonts contain up to 256 characters, while others can contain up to 65,000. Each font also contains a kerning table and contains widths for other members in its family, such as regular, italic, bold, and bold italic. There are three types of formats used today for fonts, and those are: PostScript, TrueType, and OpenType. PostScript fonts have many different types, but the one most commonly used is Type 1, and usually if someone is talking about PostScript, they are usually referring to Type 1.
....That's the first part....
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