Fancy typography doesn’t require expensive software. Thanks to the OpenType font format, the newest versions of everyday software (and the pro stuff) can tap into a ...

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 ...

MacAppware, a division of 128bit Technologies, has added two new fonts to its commercial use 1000 OpenType Fonts collection for creative Mac users. Each font is in OpenType font format and can be used ...

Adobe Systems Inc. has rolled out a new version of Adobe Font Folio featuring the Adobe Type Library in OpenType format on one CD-ROM. The Adobe Font Folio (OpenType Edition) product contains over ...

As the bugs targeted by minor releases to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard become increasingly specific, it’s easy to become complacent about the possibility of an update introducing a new problem. That, ...

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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 ...

Adobe today launched Adobe Blank, a new open-source OpenType font that, at first glance, does absolutely nothing. Indeed, the whole point of the font, as its creator Ken Lunde writes today, is to ...

Microsoft on Monday released a patch that the computer giant termed “critical” for all Windows systems, because it resolves a vulnerability that Microsoft said could allow an attacker to take ...