Windows glyph processing
An overview and explication of advanced Windows text rendering, including the OpenType font format, the Windows Unicode Script Processor (Uniscribe), and the OpenType Layout Services library (OTLS).

Character design standards
This article provides general rules for character shapes in Latin-based languages in digital fonts.

Hinting philosophies and TrueType instructions
In this tutorial, Vincent Connare discusses the TrueType hinting process in a general, high-level manner, and then converts that high-level description into actual TrueType code.

Last updated 28 October 2002.