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Visual TrueType Resources

This page has been set up to provide links and resources for users of Microsoft Visual TrueType. For information about licensing the tool, see our Visual TrueType page.

Visual TrueType training notes and tutorials

Since 1997, leading type designers and font engineers have attended Visual TrueType training sessions at our offices and elsewhere. Updated training notes are reproduced here.

• Indic hinting training video
• Hinting italics using VTT
• Italic hinting examples
• From typeface to font file
• VTT training notes
• Sample fonts
• The raster tragedy at low resolution
• Frequently asked questions

VTT manuals and release notes

• download - VTT user manual and VTT Talk programming guide
  file type - Word documents
  location - http://download.microsoft.com/
  file details - vttdoc.zip zip file - 512Kb - 14 November 1997

• Beat Stamm's Visual TrueType 4.2 release notes

VTT users community

The MSN community site for VTT has been retired. An archive can be found here. A new site is being hosted by Fontlab. Licensed users are invited to join and contribute to discussion of the tool.

Last updated 19 August 2015.

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