Apparently Macs already supported this format since Mac OS 8.5 but it is only now being put to use. ttc file contains a number of related typefaces, such as the regular, bold and italic variants of a particular typeface, in one single font file. For TrueType fonts there is an additional file packaging format that is used, called TrueType Collection.The other new fonts are Chalkduster and a set of CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) fonts named Heiti and Hiragino Sans GB.
It replaces Monaco as one of the default system fonts, even though a TrueType version of Monaco still ships with the OS. The most interesting one is called Menlo, which is a monospaced font for use by developers or techies in applications like Terminal.There are a set of new fonts included in Snow Leopard:.There are even third party monitors for which this option incorrectly isn’t displayed. The ‘Font smoothing style’ option in System Preferences > Appearances no longer has ‘Light’, ‘Medium’ and ‘Strong’ settings but only a checkbox to enable or disable font anti-aliasing.Improved support for bidirectional text makes it easier to mix left-to-right text with text from languages such as Hebrew or Arabic that are written right to left.The ‘Substitutions’ mechanism can automatically replace text, for instance replacing (c) by © or TM by TM.The core operating system routines have a number of new or updated text handling mechanisms.
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These are the most important font and text related improvements in Mac OS X 10.6:
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