Introduction to common fonts

Font display principle

The font is the same as the picture , Store as pixels , When drawing, you need to find the pixel display corresponding to the font

Font file format

• ttf, Contains only one font format , Vector font
• ttc,ttc Contains multiple ttf file , Contains multiple font formats
• otf,ttf An extension of ,opentype typeface

freetype, Open source portable Fonts engine
truetype,ttf file , Cross platform font format
opentype,truetype The extension of the font , increase PostScript Font support

Font loading

• Static loading ,ttf Wait for the documents , Translate it into o file , Package into the program
• Dynamic loading , Specify the search path for Fonts , Search for fonts in the system after startup

Create Fonts

fontcreator