Postscript is all but gone, and today, newer font standards such as TrueType and OpenType rule the roost. Here's how we got from desktop PostScript in the early '80s to today. When the Mac first ...

If you create documents or graphics for your clients in your business, you can install and use custom fonts to make your designs more interesting. TrueType technology -- TTF extension -- was developed ...

Along with the typographic freedom Mac users have always enjoyed, there have often been strange font conflicts, inexplicable font substitutions, and even system crashes related to corrupt fonts. Mac ...

A scalable font technology from Adobe that renders fonts for both the printer and the screen. PostScript fonts come in Type 1 and Type 3 formats. Type 1 fonts use a simple, efficient command language ...

If you keep running into unsupported fonts on your iPad or iPhone with Pages, Keynote, or another app, AnyFont is here to help. The $1.99 app lets you install additional fonts in the TrueType font ...

Type can convey meaning just as strongly as words themselves. If you doubt this, consider the fonts used in the logos of two popular dolls — Barbie and G.I. Joe. The rounded type of Barbie’s logo ...

Since the days of individual cast-metal fonts for each size of your typeface, type-enthusiasts have dreamed of ways of creating nicer, more elegant, more useful, more unique glyphs. Nowadays, you can ...