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OTF vs. TTF
Posted by 1996type in
10 Aug 2012 — 5:56am
10 Aug 2012 — 5:56am
Hi peeps,
These days, what is the average percentage of sold ttf files, out of the total (otf + ttf) ? Thanks in advance.
Cheers! jasper
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10 Aug 2012 — 6:47am
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10 Aug 2012 — 8:38am
23/77
Source?
10 Aug 2012 — 8:56am
The source must be the famed SSDL (Sarcastic Statistics Database of Lausanne). What Mr. Daniels fails to reveal however is that those values are not percentages, they are in fact the exact numbers of OTF versus TTF fonts produced. On Thursday.
hhp
10 Aug 2012 — 9:48am
Oh. Thought for a mo it came from Minne Ytlander's Arbitrary Source of Statistics.
10 Aug 2012 — 11:48am
98.3% of statistics are made up on the spot, so law of averages would dictate that the numbers I provided would have been made up. I'm interested to know how well my guess stacks up with real percentages, if they exist, which statistically they don't.
10 Aug 2012 — 2:28pm
Ha-ha. Suspected as much!
David
20 Aug 2012 — 8:46pm
I expect this depends a lot on the typeface and market, as well as how the options are presented.
Some foundries only make one or the other. In which case it is usually OTF for professional graphics/publishing users and mostly TTF for office users.