According to Agfa Monotype, iType allows developers to build products that can quickly display legible text on memory-constrained devices. The technology is also said to feature a new multithreading capability that eliminates the need to allocate separate blocks of RAM for various threads or applications.
iType supports a wide range of typefaces fine-tuned for optimal on-screen display, according to Agfa Monotype. Selections include the company's large collection of TrueType fonts, compact East Asian stroke-based fonts, multilingual fonts that comply with the Unicode character-encoding standard for multilingual digital information exchange, custom fonts and icons, and typefaces that are metrically equivalent to the Arial, Courier, and Times New Roman fonts in Microsoft Windows operating systems. iType also supports subpixel rendering technology, designed to improve the quality and readability of text on color LCD screens.
iType and subpixel rendering technology are part of Agfa Monotypes Text & Imaging Pipeline, a suite of development products and services covering each stage of development to meet requirements for input, display and output.
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