Format guide

TTF

TrueType Font

TTF is the font container format developed by Apple in the late 1980s and adopted by Microsoft in Windows 3.1. Stores quadratic Bézier glyph outlines, hinting data, and font metadata (kerning, OS/2 flags, naming). Every operating system reads TTF natively. Mostly superseded for web use by WOFF/WOFF2 (smaller compressed wrappers around the same SFNT data) but TTF remains the source format and the universal install target.

How to open a TTF file

Double-click on any OS to preview + install. Font management tools (FontBook on macOS, Windows Fonts, Linux fc-cache) handle batch installs. To use on the web, convert to WOFF2 first.

Primary use

Desktop font installation and the source format for web fonts.

Convert other formats to TTF

WOFF → TTF
OTF → TTF

Convert TTF to other formats

TTF → WOFF

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