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Bringing the desktop experience to consumer electronic products is not simply a matter of downsizing the technology. Specialized expertise helps to bring industry-leading innovations to market. Some of the more recent innovations supported by the iType® font engine include:
Rendering Support for Scalable Multi Colored Icons (new with iType 4.0)
Scalable, multi-colored icon data can be stored in font files, simplifying the implementation of icons into text-heavy applications. The iType font engine retrieves the icon data for rendering by an SVG (scalable vector graphics) or other graphics engine.
Font Management and Discovery Tools (new with iType 4.0)
Increased support for font downloading on mobile phones has prompted the need for font management capabilities. The iType font engine now enables application execution environments to restrict access to fonts from applications that have not been properly licensed to use them. Additionally, new verification capabilities can ensure the validity of downloaded font files. Font discovery functionality allows applications to select a font based on stylebased criteria. For example, if an application specifies a sans serif font, iType will return a list of available sans serif fonts.
Support for the Khronos OpenVG™ hardware acceleration specification (new with iType 4.0)
The iType font engine is now able to support outlines and bitmaps that are compatible with the OpenVG specification.
Linked Fonts (enhanced with iType 4.0)
This iType feature allows downloaded fonts to be dynamically linked to embedded fonts, enabling the combined data to perform as a single file.
ESQ® (Enhanced Screen Quality) Mobile Fonts
Tailored for crisp readability on small screens, ESQ Mobile fonts lend personality to applications, user interfaces and content.
SmartHint™ Technology for East Asian Fonts
A challenging issue for scalable solutions involves rendering East Asian characters at small sizes. As type scales to smaller sizes, spaces between character strokes may disappear or look blotted. SmartHint technology preserves spatial relationships while removing strokes, if necessary, while not changing the meaning of affected characters.
Fonts in a Box™ Technology for ESQ Mobile Fonts
Fonts in a Box technology compensates for characters such as accent marks and descenders (such as the lowercase y) that might otherwise be clipped when rendered on a small display.
Font Support for Both Scalable and Bitmap Typefaces
Using a Monotype Imaging utility, bitmaps can be created that have the same quality and appearance as scalable fonts rendered through the iType font engine. The resulting bitmaps, based off of scalable equivalents, are also able to leverage innovations such as Monotype Imaging’s Fonts in a Box and SmartHint technologies.
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