Font or font weight in digital form.

Font system for operating systems that is capable of scaling TrueType fonts on the screen, therefore providing an exact print-equivalent font display. TrueType fonts are transferred to printers as graphics which makes them printable by almost every printer. They are suitable for for on-screen display but print quality is below PostScript fonts.

Page description language used for communication with a printer to initiate commands. Its distinctive feature lies in... [More]

In the 80s all major operating system producers where aware that scalable fonts would soon become an important feature of future operating systems. Until then bitmap fonts had been state of the art. These where rendered pixel by pixel on the screen in every single available size. For those that did not own a PostScript printer hardcopies used pixeled fonts that looked rather poor... [More]

Truetype whitepaper for Windows 3.1 from Microsoft™

Comparison of Truetype and Type 1 (Uni Zürich).