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Standard 14 fonts
When working in PostScript and PDF environments, you may come across the notion “standard
14 fonts” or “base 14 fonts”. What exactly are these “standard 14 fonts”?
Actually, the term is derived from the standard set of 13 PostScript fonts, which are resident in all
PostScript output devices. These fonts are listed in the table below.
FontFont family
Times-RomanTimes
Times-Italic
Times-Bold
Times-BoldItalic
HelveticaHelvetica
Helvetica-Oblique
Helvetica-Bold
Helvetica-BoldOblique
CourierCourier
Courier-Oblique
Courier-Bold
Courier-BoldOblique
SymbolSymbol
For PDF environments, ZapfDingbats ( ) is added to this standard font set.
PostScript Type 1 fonts
PostScript Type 1 fonts were originally developed by Adobe Systems for use in PostScript printers.
PostScript Type 1 fonts are outline fonts. They use lines and cubic Bézier curves to define letter
shapes or “glyphs”. A “glyph” is the shape in a font that is used to represent a character code on
screen or paper. Examples of glyphs are the letters of the alphabet or the symbols in a font like
ITC ZapfDingbats ( ).
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