Older Text & Fonts tools and information for historical interest only.

References

Font Quality Specification

Describes the quality criteria used in the production of Apple TrueType fonts.

Articles

Font White Papers

Documents describing Apple AAT and Unicode technologies.

Adding Basic AAT Support to a Font

How to add AAT ligature features to your font.

Making Accented Glyphs

How to add accents to your glyphs and extend the range of languages your font covers.

Making Newton OS Fonts

How to use Apple's font tools to port a TrueType font from the Mac OS to your Newton.

Making sbit Fonts from fbits

How to take your old East Asian bitmap fonts and update them to move forward with the Mac OS.

Applications

OSX Font Tool Suite 2.0

This package, originally released April 23rd, 2004, runs on earlier OSX 10.3.x systems (Panther). Use the 3.x tool suite on later systems as it contains the same apps but with many bug fixes and enhancements.

Apple Classic Font Tools

Our Classic tools available for individual download. Most require Mac OS 8.5 or later. Older OS versions of some tools are also available.

Text & Fonts Downloads

Text & Fonts Headlines Technical Q&A: Drawing attributed strings that are both filled and stroked 2008-03-25 Technical Q&A: Connecting the Font Menu in Interface Builder 3 2008-01-21 Technical Q&A: How do I get the hexadecimal value of an NSColor object? 2007-12-19 Reference: Apple Type Services for Fonts Reference 2007-12-11 Release Note: Carbon Core Release Notes 2007-10-31