Photofont

Photofont

Photofont is a technology for creating bitmap fonts. Photofont is an open-standard font format that uses bitmap glyphs rather than vector outline glyphs. The font format is simple and easy to create with just a text editor and a graphics program. A font consists of an XML file and a collection of PNG graphics. Details of the XML structure are available at [http://www.photofont.com www.photofont.com] .

The advantages of photofonts are that they can use color, grayscale and transparency, which vector font formats like TrueType, OpenType and Type 1 cannot. The disadvantage is that, being non-standard, they require plugins to be used in applications. Plugins are currently being developed for Adobe InDesign, Quark Xpress, an Adobe Dreamweaver.

Here are some examples of photofonts:


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