Support for CFF Fonts

May 23, 2005 Tagged: typography, wpf, xaml

A new Avalon / Indigo CTP was released today. One of the new features in this release is support for CFF fonts (something brought up in a previous entry’s comments).

This means Avalon applications can use the OpenType features set with many more fonts. To demonstrate, here’s a screenshot of the excellent Bickham Script Pro drawn with a gradient fill using Avalon:

The words 'Bickham Script Pro' written in the Bickham Script Pro font

Here’s a snippet of the markup used for the screenshot (I’ll explain how it works in the next post):

<TextBlock FontSize="60" FontFamily="Bickham Script Pro" Foreground="VerticalGradient #f00 #00f">
  <Inline Typography.StylisticAlternates="1">B</Inline>ickham Script Pro
</TextBlock>

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Michael Latta 3 years ago 1 point
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OK So the markup runs, but where do I get that wonderful font? All I get is helvetica or the like when I render it.

Michael Latta 3 years ago 1 point
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Nevermind. I see the link now. Any other font suggestions?

ruben 3 years ago 1 point
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Nice. Two questions though:

- Will you be deprecating T1 fonts? Or will Avalon convert these to CFF on the fly? Adding T1 to the current list would be awesome. Font vendors would agree, I think. I expect encoding issues will make this a though one to do right, though.
- Is ClearType supported for CFF fonts as well? (I ask this because that's not true with the XP's ClearType.)