A font that consists of mathematical equations that describe what each letter should look like. Outline fonts can be printed at any size and at any resolution without "jaggies" or loss of quality. Outline fonts are sometimes stored as sepaate files on a disk. Such separate files are also called "printer fonts." Contrast BITMAP FONT.
A font made up of outline glyphs in a particular typeface and style, with no size restriction. The Font Manager can generate thousands of point sizes from the same outline font.
a collection of ideal shapes of characters
A font that is defined by drawing the black contour of the white space that makes up each character. It is made up typically of Bezier curves for PostScnpt fonts and quadratic splines for TrueType fonts. Both these fonts can be scaled to any size - therefore, one set of outlines can be used for any size in a typeface.
A font type that uses curves and lines to describe the font. Since these fonts are described mathematically using curves and vectors to top
A font whose outline is described mathematically, allowing it to be rendered (printed or drawn) smoothly at any size.
output: Fonts that uses mathematical descriptions of each character rather than bitmapped images. Outline fonts can be viewed and printed at any size and at any resolution. The two types of outline fonts in the Mac world are PostScript and TrueType, although the math is different. When an outline font is printed, the equations are interpreted and a bitmap is created (rasterized) at the resolution of the printer.
n. A font (type design) stored in a computer or printer as a set of outlines for drawing each of the alphabetic and other characters in a character set. Outline fonts are templates rather than actual patterns of dots and are scaled up or down to match a particular type size. Such fonts are most often used for printing, as is the case with most PostScript fonts on a PostScript-compatible laser printer and TrueType fonts. Compare bitmapped font, screen font, stroke font.
An outline font (or "vector font") is one defined as vector graphics, i.e. as a set of lines and curves to define the border of glyphs, as opposed to a bitmap font, which defines each glyph as an array of pixels. Examples are Post Script (Type 1 and Type 3 fonts), True Type and Open Type. Outline font characters can be scaled to any size and otherwise transformed more easily than a bitmap font, and with more attractive results, though this requires a lot of numerical processing.