Palatino Linotype 497kb

noftus2 January 2006 · 15:42

Why is Palatino Linotype Opentype size so large?

Or is it normal for otfs to be this size?

(edit: PC format)

Chris Lozos2 January 2006 · 15:54

OpenType fonts can have many more glyphs and features than TT or T1 fonts. Wait until Kangi OT fonts start to grow!

ChrisL

Si_Daniels2 January 2006 · 17:25

1328 glyphs, hints for b/w and grayscale, OpenType layout tables for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.

Thomas Phinney2 January 2006 · 18:58

Kanji OpenType fonts have already grown, Chris. Take a look at Hiragino Mincho (bundled with Mac OS) or Kozuka Mincho Pro (Adobe, each font is over 4 MB with 15,444 glyphs).

Cheers,

Chris Lozos2 January 2006 · 19:06

Thomas, They still have to reach the full 3,000 mark :-)

ChrisL

luc2 January 2006 · 22:17

I disagree with the comment that
“Opentype fonts can have many more glyphs and features than TT or T1 fonts”.
I can stick thousands of glyphs in a T1 font, give each
of them a different name, and extract them quite
nice

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