Font question

[nicrose]

How do I know if a ffil font is a screen font or a printer font? Is there a way to tell by looking at the file or something? I'm looking at Onyx font in particular.

Also how can I tell if I have the printer version of a ttf font?

Is there a really good place to buy cheap fonts for print output?

Thank you.

Nic-rose

 

[iMeowbot]

ffil (lowercase) is an old style screen font. You won't see these much today.

FFIL (all caps) can be more "interesting":

- For TrueType, the convention is to have the FFIL contain everything.

- For old-style PostScript, the convention is for the FFIL (font suitcase) file to contain the display stuff, and a separate LWFN (often has a custom icon, Get Info in Finder will call it a PostScript Type 1 outline Font) to have the printer font.

For the newer formats (.dfont, .otf, .ttf), you can ignore this silliness.