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psuresh on June 27, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Text rendering hates you (2019)

>Saying OTF is tricky.. because OTF file format can be postscript outlines OR truetype outlines and you don't know what is inside until you check.

it is true .ttf fonts. .otf is always cubic

Jasper_ on June 27, 2023 [–]

No, OTF supports both TrueType font outlines [0] (quadratic only) and CFF/CFF2 outlines [1] (cubic or quadratic). In fact, CFF is relative rare in the wild.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/g...

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/c...

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