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TTF — TrueType (Quadratic) Outlines

One design in TrueType outlines: quadratic contours in a glyf table with a loca index. Its CFF twin carries the same design in cubic charstrings, so converting one and diffing against the other tests an outline converter rather than a whole font pipeline. Original typeface, free to use.

Specimen — this file, loaded live via @font-facettf

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 Outlines
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
Outlines
glyf, quadratic B-splines
Tables
glyf, loca, cmap, head, hhea, hmtx, maxp, name, post, OS/2
Glyphs
69
File Bytes
6336
Paired With
NovusOutlinesCFF.otf (identical design, cubic CFF)

Testing contract

Reference control
Scenario
Convert this file to CFF outlines and compare the result with the OTF twin.
Expected result
The glyph shapes match within curve-conversion tolerance; this file is 6336 bytes with glyf and loca, the twin is 4868 bytes with a CFF table and no loca.

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 — TrueType (Quadratic) Outlines” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Conversion testing, Web assets. 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("NovusOutlinesTrueType.ttf");
}
body { font-family: "Sample", sans-serif; }

Generated by generation/fonts_p7.py. Free for any use, no attribution required — license.