Mac OS X Fonts: Some Good Reference Material

More reading material for Mac OS X Tiger and Leopard Users.

I’ve been hard at work on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: Visual QuickStart Guide these past few days and I see at least a month more of work ahead of me. The book’s a complete rewrite of the Tiger edition and I’m eager to get as much updated information in it as I can.

With that in mind, I thought I’d share two excellent references I found about using Fonts in Mac OS X:

• Mac OS X: Font File Formats is a Web page on the Apple site with basic information about font file formats supported by Tiger (and Leopard).
• Advanced Typography with Mac OS X Tiger is a 37-page PDF file with extensive and advanced information about using fonts with Mac OS X, including some how-to information about Font Book, the Font Panel, the Character Palette, and the Typography panel.

As I find additional high-quality reference material about Mac OS X Tiger and Leopard features, I’ll post links to this site. Keep checking in. I still have 25 chapters to go!