(Oops. I read the whole Wikipedia article this time!)
They're both! TrueType fonts contain both vector outlines of glyphs (straight line segments and quadratic Bézier curves) and hint programs (yes, run by a virtual machine) to tweak the outlines so that glyphs look good at a variety of sizes.
Fascinating stuff!
They're both! TrueType fonts contain both vector outlines of glyphs (straight line segments and quadratic Bézier curves) and hint programs (yes, run by a virtual machine) to tweak the outlines so that glyphs look good at a variety of sizes.
Fascinating stuff!