This section contains information for TrueType developers. If, as a type designer or typographic engineer, you are not familiar with TrueType, please see our Information for type users page.

Specifications
TrueType and TrueType Open specifications in Microsoft Word format.

Unicode, character sets and codepages
Our Character sets document includes information about ASCII, OEM, ANSI, DBCS, and Unicode character sets. Character sets and codepages explains how characters are mapped to glyphs, describes the Windows 95 WGL4 character set and lists the standard codepages for Windows 95.

Embedding TrueType
Information about embedding TrueType fonts.

Articles
Miscellaneous articles for TrueType developers.

Tools
For information relating to TrueType and TrueType Open tools.

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this page last updated 10 March 1996
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