Thank you for your video! It is much clear for me now! I've just bought a font for my work in Illustrator and it has otf and ttf versions of it. I was a little bit confused which one should I use and what is the difference.
All I wanted to know is which too instal. I want to use them for printing on posters and online. ...What is "TTF flavoured" and what is " OTF flavoured"?? And What are the "additional OTF features" you are talking about? Do I miss out anything when I install TTF then? (I'm on an 2019 or so iMac).
it is interesting that in flutter I had issues with one font family, pixeloid mono, using ttf. Changing color of text did not work. But converting to otf fixed the issue, I wonder why
i got bored with fonts and created a vector graphic font art style type which works very well ! then all i did was create a program that places the vector fonts as i type =) it works in my game engines, not in normal situations like typing here for example.
Thank you for the info, love what you are doing! Now... from a type-designer's point of view, TrueType TTF seems to be the best file for screen, and PostScript OTF for printing... or at least that's what it used to be... What I'm asking is: It's OK to use TTF files with TrueType hinting for printing? Or it's better to continue using PS OTF for print, and TT TTF for screen?
Fernando Díaz TrueType works fine in print. But type designers just almost always design their fonts in PostScript, so to ship TrueType versions of it, it needs an additional conversion step, where changes of the outlines can’t be fully avoided and the hinting also needs additional work. That’s why most foundries rather ship the original PostScript design directly. If I had a workflow, which automatically outputs a perfect TrueType font from my PostScript designs without additional work, I would only ship TrueType for every client and every use.
Great vid. I've got a question though. Whats the portability of fonts across Mac and Windows machines when sending artwork to clients for print-on-demand or ePub? True Type or Open Type? Or does it not matter.
+Latte Goldstein Well, usually, the fonts aren’t sent to clients at all, since that is usually not covered by the license. Other than that, both traditional TrueType fonts as well as PostScript-flavoured or TrueType-flavoured OpenType fonts can be shared across Mac OS and Windows systems. There might be individual problems in certain circumstances with certain formats, but it’s hard to explain that in a general answer.
Hi Guru, if a print publisher requires me to use Postscript Type 1 or OpenType fonts only, but I have already designed something I like in Illustrator using one TrueType font (OSP-DIN) (my bad for not thoroughly checking the specs first), will converting that TT font to outlines prevent any problems on their end? What could go wrong and what could their reason be for disallowing TrueType fonts? Does creating outlines prevent font printing issues? Thanks!
Problems with TrueType fonts in print were common in the early 1990s, but that is not an issue anymore in 2016. So it’s really strange if a print publishers specifically asks for PostScript. Either they use hardware that is VERY out of date or they could deal with TrueType and just don’t know it (which would also not be a good sign). But anyway, converting to outlines should work fine. You need to check that the conversion works properly of course. Converting to outlines make the file larger and the text can’t be edited anymore of course, but it shouldn’t effect how the text is actually printed in any way. So there is no downside in that regard.
Simple question: I am a graphic artist using a mac. When purchasing fonts they usually give you both .otf and .ttf files. Which one should I load into my font program (Suitcase Fushion)? I am sure I do not need to load both.
What apps are you using? If it’s apps like Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign: go with the OTF. And yes: never install different formats of the same fonts at once!
Hi Ralf. Thanks for the great video. I'm a graphic designer and work for the printing media. I have fonts that are conflicting in my Suitcase Fusion. It's asking me to keep one of the two fonts. They are Open Type TT or Open Type PS. Which one would you keep?
