On 7/13/2009 2:10 PM, Mark D Lew wrote:
ClearType is a specific method of type definition*, developed and owned by Microsoft, introduced with Vista. The purpose of ClearType was to enhance screen readability.
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typeface in two different languages, which may have behaved differently in different software. ClearType is a new such language.
A minor correction (and I haven't been following this whole discussion): ClearType is not a font programming language or a method of type definition. It is a technology for displaying fonts on digital displays, regardless of whether those fonts are TrueType or OpenType (or PS I guess, though I haven't used those in a long time). There are no ClearType font files.
The so-called "ClearType" fonts (Calibri et al.) are ordinary OpenType fonts which were designed to be optimized for ClearType display. In fact, if you're using them on any display device which does not support ClearType, or which does not have ClearType enabled (like any CRT monitor), they tend to look worse than other fonts. (They all print very nicely.)
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