I can answer part of this… It loads TTF just fine, as I’ve a font of my own 
design that I’ve used with no problems. (Just retested now to be sure nothing 
has changed.)

I don’t know about part two :)

Karljürgen

> On Jul 27, 2016, at 16:30, maxwell <maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu> wrote:
> 
> Does fontspec load *only* OpenType fonts?
> 
> The intro to the fontspec package documentation says
>    The fontspec package allows users of either XETEX or
>    LuaTEX to load OpenType fonts in a LATEX document.
> Does that mean it doesn't load TrueType etc. fonts, even if there are no 
> OpenType versions of those fonts?
> 
> Some of the things I've read on-line (like 
> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/241927/problem-using-ttf-fonts-with-xelatex)
>  seem to imply that fontspec loads ttf fonts just fine.  In which case I'll 
> have a different question: how to ensure that it prioritizes OTF fonts over 
> TTF fonts fc-list finds two such fonts.
> -- 
>       Mike Maxwell
> 
> 
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