D-Type: Font Engine: Overview, Features, Specifications, Examples, Screenshots

Example 1

Superb anti-aliasing

D-Type Font Engine: Superb anti-aliasing with up to 256 levels of gray.

Windows GDI: A limited number of gray-levels can result in less than perfect quality.

See our Comparison of D-Type and Other Font Rendering Engines page for more screenshots.

Example 2

Unique automatic font hinting

Auto-hinted Arial

Auto-hinted Times

Our unique automatic font hinting makes text legible as if the referenced fonts were manually hinted by an experienced typographer. The point, of course, is that labour intensive manual font hinting process can be omitted. Even non-hinted or poorly hinted TrueType fonts will still look great with D-Type. No need to say, our automatic hinting is script independent. It works equally well with Roman, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Indic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and other world's scripts.

Secondly, because our hinting technology preserves original typeface design and metrics, D-Type Font Engine is very suitable for device independent text layout. You are guaranteed to get consistent presentation of text, uniform character spacing and unvarying text lengths regardless of the resolution or zoom factor.

Example 3

A plethora of fonts or just a single Multiple-Master font?

BASE DESIGN B1=100% B2=0% B3=0% B4=0%	INTERMEDIATE DESIGN B1=67% B2=33% B3=0% B4=0%	INTERMEDIATE DESIGN B1=33% B2=67% B3=0% B4=0%	BASE DESIGN B1=0% B2=100% B3=0% B4=0%
INTERMEDIATE DESIGN B1=67% B2=0% B3=33% B4=0%	INTERMEDIATE DESIGN B1=44% B2=22% B3=22% B4=12%	INTERMEDIATE DESIGN B1=22% B2=44% B3=12% B4=22%	INTERMEDIATE DESIGN B1=0% B2=67% B3=0% B4=33%
INTERMEDIATE DESIGN B1=33% B2=0% B3=67% B4=0%	INTERMEDIATE DESIGN B1=22% B2=12% B3=44% B4=22%	INTERMEDIATE DESIGN B1=12% B2=22% B3=22% B4=44%	INTERMEDIATE DESIGN B1=0% B2=33% B3=0% B4=67%
BASE DESIGN B1=0% B2=0% B3=100% B4=0%	INTERMEDIATE DESIGN B1=0% B2=0% B3=67% B4=33%	INTERMEDIATE DESIGN B1=0% B2=0% B3=33% B4=67%	BASE DESIGN B1=0% B2=0% B3=0% B4=100%

Just a single Multiple-Master font! The example above shows its 4 base designs and 12 interpolated (intermediate) designs. The contribution percentages of each design are shown as well. D-Type renders interpolated designs quickly and efficiently as any other regular font.

Example 4

Special Style Effects

D-Type excels when it comes to special effects. The above illustration shows only a few possibilities.

Example 5

Built-in Kerning

Kerning ON

Kerning OFF

Example 6

Great Looking Text

D-Type 4.0 gives developers many different text output options that are suitable for both device dependent and device independent text layout. No matter which mode you choose, the final result always looks great. Here are a few examples, all rendered by D-Type Font Engine using a 100% auto-hinted version of the popular Verdana font:

DV_TEXTMODE_DEVICE and DV_TEXTMODE_KERN_DEVICE

This mode is great for device/resolution dependent text layout. Superb text quality and great looking character spacing.

Same as the previous example, but with some filtering.

DV_TEXTMODE_FRAC and DV_TEXTMODE_KERN_FRAC

This mode is great for device/resolution independent text layout. This means that the location of each character on the page (screen) is accurate down to the pixel. Great text quality and accurate character positioning.

Same as the previous example, but with some filtering.

It's quite remarkable that D-Type can achieve this outstanding quality just by processing raw glyph outlines! All the hinting, grid-fitting, alignment and character spacing calculations in the above examples are done by D-Type Font Engine automatically, without any assistance from TrueType instructions or device-specific metrics. With D-Type, all you need in a font file are good quality glyph outlines and the satisfaction is guaranteed! If you are a font designer, don't waste time hinting your outlines or building device-specific tables.

See our Comparison of D-Type and Other Font Rendering Engines page for more screenshots.

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Last updated on January 21, 2009