Typography

Information on Truetype fonts (TTF), OpenType fonts (OTF), etc

References

Font design

• Font Vertical Metrics (from [1])
• Vertical Metrics (from [2])

Font rendering

• A Closer Look At Font Rendering
• Challenges: TrueType Rasterizer, very detailed analysis.

The whole book is a wealth of information on rendering on screen.

Text rendering

• Text rendering hates you
• Text editing hates you too
• Deep dive CSS: font metrics, line-height and vertical-align

Detailed explanation about the difficulty of aligning text, creating surrounding boxes, etc.