Convert TTF to OTF

A design workflow or a foundry pipeline standardises on OTF with CFF outlines.

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    What actually changes

    TTF and OTF are not the same picture in two wrappers.

    Quadratic TrueType curves are converted to cubic Bezier curves and stored in a CFF table. The glyph data usually gets slightly smaller, since cubic curves describe the same shapes with fewer points.

    Worth knowing first

    TrueType hinting does not carry across. Those instructions are written for the quadratic rasteriser and have no CFF equivalent, so a font that was carefully hinted for small sizes on Windows loses that tuning and renders slightly differently in low-resolution text.

    Questions

    TTF to OTF, answered

    Is OTF better than TTF?

    Neither is better. They are two outline formats inside the same OpenType wrapper, with different curve mathematics and hinting models.

    Will my file get smaller?

    The glyph outlines usually do. Whether the whole file shrinks depends on what else the font carries.

    How to convert TTF to OTF

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    Add your files

    Drop one TTF or two hundred. Batch conversion is not a paid feature here.

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    Choose your settings

    OpenType Font is lossless, so nothing is thrown away in the conversion.

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    Download

    Converted and deleted the moment it finishes. Never written to permanent storage.

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