User Guide

Megabyte: A measuring unit; 1,048,576 bytes; denoted by
the letters “M” or “MB.”
Mean line: The top (imaginary) point of all lowercase
characters without ascenders. Also called “x-height.”
Metrics: Font information such as ascent, descent, leading,
character width, and kerning.
MMPC2MAC: Macromedia PC to Macintosh font
conversion utility. Converts files created for the Macintosh
on a PC into Macintosh font files ready for installation.
Monospaced type: Like typewritten characters, these all
have the same width and take up the same amount of
space. Use of this type allows figures to be set in vertical
rows without leaving a ragged appearance (as opposed to
proportional type).
NFNT (New FoNT): The Macintosh font resource which
contains your bitmap screen font. NFNTs have a wider
range of font identification numbers than the older FONTs,
NFNTs opened up another 16,000 FOND ID numbers when
they were introduced by Apple with the Macintosh Plus.
Oblique: A right-slanted version of a Roman typeface
without changes to the letter’s design. Often confused with
Italic.
Old Style: Characterized by variations in stroke width,
bracketed serifs, high contrast, and a diagonal stroke. Some
popular Old Styles include Garamond, Janson, and Caslon.
Outline font: A font created by drawing the outlines of
each character. A PostScript font is an outline font.
Outline layer: The layer in the Outline Window used in
editing a character’s outline.
Outline Window: The window that displays a characters
points and paths, used for editing character outlines.
Path: A sequence of points which may be connected, open,
or closed.
Permanent font: A font which resides in a PostScript
printer until the power is turned off.
Pica: A unit of typographic measurement equal to 0.166
Fontographer User's Manual
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