Convert PS Font Free

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Convert PostScript fonts to and from modern font formats in your browser, with all processing done locally on your device.

What a PS font holds

As a font, PS refers to a PostScript font, one of the outline-font technologies Adobe introduced with the PostScript page-description language. PostScript fonts describe each character as mathematical outlines that can be scaled to any size without loss of sharpness, which revolutionised digital typography and desktop publishing.

The best-known PostScript font technology is Type 1, which pairs an outline file with a metrics file and uses hinting to render crisply at small sizes on screen and in print. PostScript fonts became the professional standard for typesetting through the 1980s and 1990s before OpenType unified the font world.

Strengths and limits

PostScript fonts delivered scalable, high-quality outlines with careful hinting, which made them the backbone of professional print and desktop publishing for many years.

The technology is now largely superseded by OpenType, which folds PostScript outlines (as CFF) into a single modern container. Adobe has ended support for authoring with original Type 1 fonts in its applications, so they are increasingly a legacy format.

Working with PS fonts

You will meet PostScript fonts in older publishing archives and professional type libraries from the pre-OpenType era.

To keep using them, convert PostScript fonts to OpenType (OTF), which preserves the outlines while giving modern compatibility, or to WOFF2 for the web. Font tools such as FontForge handle these conversions.