OpenType's origins date to Microsoft's attempt to license Apple's advanced typography technology GX Typography in the early 1990s. Those negotiations failed, motivating Microsoft … See more

• TrueType outlines use quadratic Bézier curves.
• CFF outlines use cubic Bézier curves.
OpenType uses the general sfnt structure of a TrueType font, but it adds several smartfont options … See more

As a step in the creation of a font, OpenType font properties (other than the outline) can be defined using human-readable text saved … See more

In 2005, Adobe shipped a new technology in their Creative Suite applications bundle that offers a solution for "gaiji" (外字, Japanese for "outside character"). Ideographic writing … See more

Basic Roman support
Virtually all applications and modern operating systems have basic Roman support and work with OpenType fonts just as well as other, … See more

OpenType Layout tags are 4-byte character strings that identify the scripts, language systems, features and baselines in an OpenType Layout font. Microsoft's Layout tag registry establishes conventions for naming and using these tags. OpenType … See more

• Uniscribe, the multilingual text rendering engine of Microsoft Windows
• Windows Presentation Foundation, the first Windows software framework with near complete OpenType support
• Apple Type Services for Unicode Imaging, … See more