What are the types of fonts are there?

Reguler & True type

There are two types of fonts. Reguler fonts and true type fonts. Regular fonts comes with .FON extensiton while true type fonts have .TTF or .TTC (true type collection) extension. True type fonts have additional drawing enhancements like antialiaing and clear type drawing. These font enhancement settings are available in control panel and these are user configurable. Enhancements can be seen in default quality if is is selected in font setup.

Quality parameter

The output quality depends on values of the parameter fdwQuality. The output quality defines how carefully GDI must attempt to match the logical-font attributes to those of an actual physical font. It can be one of the following values.

HFONT CreateFont(
  int     nHeight,
  int     nWidth,
  int     nEscapement,
  int     nOrientation,
  int     fnWeight,
  DWORD   fdwItalic,
  DWORD   fdwUnderline,
  DWORD   fdwStrikeOut,
  DWORD   fdwCharSet,
  DWORD   fdwOutputPrecision,
  DWORD   fdwClipPrecision,
  DWORD   fdwQuality,
  DWORD   fdwPitchAndFamily,
  LPCTSTR lpszFace
);

Quality options

Option	Meaning
ANTIALIASED_QUALITY	Font is antialiased, or smoothed, if the font supports it and the size of the font is not too small or too large.
CLEARTYPE_QUALITY	If set, text is rendered (when possible) using ClearType antialiasing method. See Remarks for more information.
DEFAULT_QUALITY	Appearance of the font does not matter.
DRAFT_QUALITY	Appearance of the font is less important than when the PROOF_QUALITY value is used. For GDI raster fonts, scaling is enabled, which means that more font sizes are available, but the quality may be lower. Bold, italic, underline, and strikeout fonts are synthesized, if necessary.
NONANTIALIASED_QUALITY	Font is never antialiased, that is, font smoothing is not done.
PROOF_QUALITY	Character quality of the font is more important than exact matching of the logical-font attributes. For GDI raster fonts, scaling is disabled and the font closest in size is chosen. Although the chosen font size may not be mapped exactly when PROOF_QUALITY is used, the quality of the font is high and there is no distortion of appearance. Bold, italic, underline, and strikeout fonts are synthesized, if necessary.

If the output quality is DEFAULT_QUALITY, DRAFT_QUALITY, or PROOF_QUALITY, then the font is antialiased if the SPI_GETFONTSMOOTHING system parameter is TRUE. Users can control this system parameter from the Control Panel. (The precise wording of the setting in the Control panel depends on the version of Windows, but it will be words to the effect of "Smooth edges of screen fonts".)

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