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Is This An Open Type Format Font

Dalton Maag fonts use the TrueType-compatible OpenType format with a .ttf extension to ensure compatibility with both modern and older systems. While OpenType fonts can support advanced typographic features, the TrueType-based format provides pixel-perfect results and works on all operating systems and applications that support .otf fonts. Some very old applications may not support OpenType fonts correctly or at all, but Dalton Maag guarantees support for operating systems for five years after replacement.

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Is This An Open Type Format Font

Dalton Maag fonts use the TrueType-compatible OpenType format with a .ttf extension to ensure compatibility with both modern and older systems. While OpenType fonts can support advanced typographic features, the TrueType-based format provides pixel-perfect results and works on all operating systems and applications that support .otf fonts. Some very old applications may not support OpenType fonts correctly or at all, but Dalton Maag guarantees support for operating systems for five years after replacement.

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Is This An OpenType

Format Font?
What file format is this font? While all OpenType format fonts can include support
Dalton Maag fonts are delivered in a TrueType-compatible for advanced typographic features, created by the font
OpenType format, with a .ttf extension. This font format engineer to be sympathetic and appropriate to the
is compatible with modern systems, but also with older individual typeface design, there are some differences
applications and operating systems. between where the two font flavours can be reliably used.

Why does Dalton Maag use the .ttf extension rather Support for OpenType format fonts
than .otf? CFF-based OpenType format fonts are natively
TrueType-based OpenType format fonts (.ttf) are supported in many desktop operating systems, from
supported by all operating systems and applications Windows 2000 onwards and from macOS 10.1 onwards.
which support .otf fonts, but as they are a clean superset Older operating systems will require the installation of
of the TrueType format, they behave as traditional additional software, such as Adobe Type Manager, in
TrueType format fonts in applications or operating order to support these.
systems that aren’t aware of OpenType features.
Some older applications will list these as ‘printer fonts’
This means that older versions of Windows, proprietary and do not behave correctly, or function with them at all.
applications, embedded systems, and more, are all able Adobe maintains a list of known problematic applications
to use the high-quality font display that can be produced for both Windows and macOS:
by a carefully engineered OpenType font format based on https://www.adobe.com/lv/products/type/opentype/
TrueType format outlines (as long as you use the legacy opentype-fonts-information.html
.ttf file extension).
We guarantee support for operating systems for five
The TrueType format allows our engineers to produce years after each version is replaced. Therefore the oldest
a pixel-perfect result every time, with exceptional versions of Windows and macOS that we support are:
backwards and forwards compatibility. This ensures our Windows 8.1 build 9600 (until 15 July 2020) and macOS
fonts work perfectly and look their best, wherever they 10.10 (until 30 September 2020).
are used.

The history of font formats


When Microsoft and Adobe announced the end of the
font format war in 1996, the resulting marriage between
the TrueType Open and PostScript Type 1 font formats
left us with a single font format with two distinct flavours–
those based on TrueType format font outlines, and those
based on CFF (a descendent of PostScript Type 1)
outlines.

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