What (who) is TrueType - definition
FILE FORMAT
TrueType virtual machine; TrueType font; True type; Truetype; True Type Font; TrueType Font; True Type font; TrueType fonts; TT font; TTF file; .ttf; True Type; .tte; TrueType Collection; .ttc; Codename: Royal; Codename: Bass; Codename Royal; Font/ttf
TrueType
<text, standard> An outline font standard first developed
by Apple Computer, and later embraced by Microsoft, as a
competitor to Adobe Systems, Inc.'s PostScript which is
still more popular.
(1995-03-16)
Datafork TrueType
Dfont; .dfont
Datafork TrueType is a font wrapper used on Apple Macintosh computers running Mac OS X. It is a TrueType suitcase with the resource map in the data fork, rather than the resource fork as had been the case in Mac OS 9.
QuickDraw GX
REPLACEMENT FOR THE QUICKDRAW 2D GRAPHICS ENGINE
Quickdraw GX; TrueType GX
QuickDraw GX was a replacement for the QuickDraw (QD) 2D graphics engine and Printing Manager inside the classic Mac OS. Its underlying drawing platform was a resolution-independent object oriented retained mode system, making it much easier for programmers to perform common tasks (compared to the original QuickDraw).
Wikipedia
TrueType
TrueType is an outline font standard developed by Apple in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's 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 pixels, at various font sizes. With widely varying rendering technologies in use today, pixel-level control is no longer certain in a TrueType font.
