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Standards in Typeface Design

Compiled by Jacci Howard Bear, About.com Guide

Read design standards and FAQs for digital type designers.

Character Design Standards

From Microsoft, the basic shapes, alignment, spacing of characters from a type designer/developers point of view.

TrueType FAQ

Q&A on using TrueType fonts in Windows, OpenType, font embedding, font licensing, and more; updated regularly.

The Unicode Standard

All about this character coding system -- introduction, standards, characters.

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