The
products that Formula Solutions manufacture are built around the
two main font technologies that have existed for many years, namely
TrueType and Postscript. What Formula Solutions have done is to
take these font technologies and use them in a new innovative way.
Traditionally
fonts have contained typefaces such as Helvetica and Times Roman.
What we have done is to use the same technology but have incorporated
logos, symbols, quality marks and signatures to effectively
extend the capabilities of both TrueType and Postscript.
The
vast majority of the fonts that we produce are TrueType as this
is now the default font technology used on the majority of the
worlds desktop computers. However we still produce Postscript
Type 1 fonts, as well as other font standards such as HP's downloadable
font format which is often used in the DOS environment.
This
section of our web site is designed to give you some background
information regarding primarily the TrueType technology, but
also covering other technologies where appropriate.
An
overview of TrueType
TrueType
hinting
TrueType
font embedding
Using
a custom TrueType font
An
overview of Postscript fonts
Hewlett
Packard font formats
If
you have any questions regarding the various font technologies,
please send us an email and
we will endeavour to answer your questions. |