Editing TrueType (section)

{{short description|File format}}
{{Infobox file format
| icon          = 
| logo          = 
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| extension     = <code>.ttf</code>&nbsp;&&nbsp;<code>.tte</code>&nbsp;(for&nbsp;[[Private Use Areas|EUDC]]&nbsp;usage) for [[Microsoft Windows]], <code>.dfont</code> for [[macOS]]
| _noextcode    = yes
| mime          = {{unbulleted list|<code>font/ttf</code>|<code>font/sfnt</code>|<code>application/x-font-ttf</code>|<code>application/font-sfnt</code>&nbsp;(deprecated)}}<ref name="iana-media-types">{{cite web |title=Media Types |url=//www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml |publisher=[[Internet Assigned Numbers Authority|IANA]] |date=2017-10-12 |access-date=2017-10-17}}</ref>
| _nomimecode   = yes
| type code     = TFIL
| uniform type  = <code>public.truetype-ttf-font</code>
| magic         = 
| owner         = [[Apple Inc.|Apple]]
| released      = 
| latest release version = 
| latest release date = 
| genre         = [[outline font]]
| container for = 
| contained by  = 
| extended from = [[SFNT]]
| extended to   = [[OpenType]]
| standard      = 
| free          = 
| url           = 
}}
'''TrueType''' is an [[Computer font#Outline fonts|outline font]] [[standardization|standard]] developed by [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] in the late 1980s as a competitor to [[Adobe Inc.|Adobe]]'s [[PostScript fonts#Type 1|Type 1 fonts]] used in [[PostScript]]. It has become the most common format for fonts on the [[classic Mac OS]], [[macOS]], and [[Microsoft Windows]] operating systems.

The primary strength of TrueType was originally that it offered [[font]] developers a high degree of control over precisely how their fonts are displayed, right down to particular [[pixel]]s, at various font sizes. With widely varying [[Rendering (computer graphics)|rendering]] technologies in use today, pixel-level control is no longer certain in a TrueType font.