TTF — Colour Font, Apple sbix PNG Strike
An sbix colour font — Apple's embedded-bitmap format, one 128 ppem PNG strike per icon glyph, with vector glyf outlines kept underneath for renderers that ignore sbix. For testing bitmap-strike extraction and the strike-versus-outline decision. Original typeface, free to use.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & ! ? @ # % ( ) — “ ”
12pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
16pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
20pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
28pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
40pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Specifications
- Family
- Novus Grotesk P7 Color
- Units Per Em
- 1000
- Cap Height
- 700
- X Height
- 500
- Wave
- p7
- Seed
- 20260807
- Built With
- fontTools 4.x
- Determinism
- head.created/head.modified pinned to 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z, recalcTimestamp off; outlines are parametric, colour material is seeded
- Usage Rights
- original artwork, free for any use
- Colour Format
- sbix (Apple bitmap strike)
- Strike Ppem
- 128
- Graphic Type
- png
- Bitmap Glyphs
- 3
- Resolution
- 72
- Glyph Map
- U+E100 badge, U+E101 wave, U+E102 chip
- Monochrome Fallback
- glyf outlines for every bitmap glyph
Testing contract
Expected to pass- Scenario
- Extract the sbix strike, then render the glyphs at 24 px and at 128 px.
- Expected result
- One 128 ppem strike is present with three PNG images; an sbix-aware renderer scales the bitmap, while an sbix-blind one falls back to the glyf outlines and stays sharp.
What is a .ttf file?
TTF (TrueType Font) is a scalable outline font format developed by Apple and Microsoft that uses quadratic Bezier curves and includes hinting for sharp rendering at small sizes. It stores glyph outlines, metrics, and character mappings in a single file. It is one of the most widely supported desktop and web font formats.
How to use this file
Use an example TTF to test font parsers, glyph and metric extraction, text-rendering pipelines, and converters that produce web font formats like WOFF.
How to use this file for testing
“TTF — Colour Font, Apple sbix PNG Strike” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Conversion testing, Metadata testing. The same content exported across many formats and linked as a group, so you can convert one and diff against the expected twin.
Documented properties for this file: seed 20260807. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.
Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such — expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.
Font fixtures carry a small documented glyph set across the common wrappers. Test font loaders, subsetting, and @font-face; the specimen preview renders the glyphs the face actually maps.
Code examples
@font-face {
font-family: "Sample";
src: url("NovusColorSbix.ttf");
}
body { font-family: "Sample", sans-serif; }Related files
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Generated by generation/fonts_p7.py. Free for any use, no attribution required — license.