AFP font naming conventions

Font naming conventions identify a specific font and its characteristics. Each type of font has its own naming convention:

• WorldType fonts follow the naming conventions in Naming conventions for the WorldType Fonts.
• FOCA outline and raster fonts follow this convention for the names of each font component:

  The first character in the name defines the font component:

  C

  Character set

  T

  Code page

  X

  Coded font

  After the first character, the remainder of the name depends on the type of component:

  • If the component is a code page, see Naming conventions for code pages.
  • If the component is a character set or coded font, the remainder of the name is based on the conventions for these font libraries:
    • General Library fonts (see Naming convention for General Library Fonts)
    • Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) fonts (see Naming conventions for CJK fonts)
    • CJK simulation fonts (see Naming conventions for CJK simulation fonts)
    • AFP raster fonts (see AFP Raster Fonts)

  Character set and coded font names are distinctive and can be used to determine whether a font is a General Library font, a CJK font, or a raster font. For example, character sets and coded fonts are only six characters for outline fonts rather than eight characters for raster fonts. Code page names are not distinctive enough to determine for which font group the code page is supplied.