Microsoft Typography
Created: April 14, 1995
In Windows 95, enhancements to TrueType 1.0 improve font performance and appearance, and support international typography. The following TrueType enhancements are summarized in this article:
32 Bit Rasterizer: Faster and better hinting and rendering
Embedded Bitmaps: Combine contours and bitmaps in one font file
TrueType Collections: Share glyph sets among fonts
Vertical Font Metrics: Layout of vertical text
Gray Scale Font Rasterization: Render smooth and sharp glyphs
Windows Glyph List 4: New "Pan-European" character set
Codepages: Better codepage classification and design
Unicode: 16 bit character code representation
TrueType OS/2 Table: Identify the scripts in a font
TrueType Open: Support for International Typography