Basics about fonts.

Basics about fonts

Font vs typeface

• Typeface: Helvetica
• Font: Helvetica Regular 9 point.

Font vs Font family

Font family is like typeface, it is a colletion.

Font encoding

Freetype library

Reference

• The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
• How are character encodings related to fonts?
• FontForge
• Where can I get information on the mechanics of fonts?