Apple Type Services (ATS)
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Apple Type Services (ATS) is Apple’s modern font and text rendering architecture that superseded the classic Font Manager to provide more advanced, scalable, and Unicode-compliant typography support across its operating systems.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
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| Apple Type Services | 0 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Apple software technology
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font and text rendering architecture ⓘ typography subsystem ⓘ |
| abbreviation | ATS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| compliance | Unicode-compliant typography ⓘ |
| componentOf | Apple graphics and text stack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designedFor | system-wide typography support ⓘ |
| developer | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| feature |
advanced typography
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font fallback ⓘ font management ⓘ font substitution ⓘ glyph rasterization ⓘ international text support ⓘ scalable font rendering ⓘ text layout ⓘ |
| goal |
provide Unicode-compliant text rendering
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provide modern font handling ⓘ supersede classic Font Manager ⓘ |
| integratedWith |
ATSUI
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AppKit text system ⓘ Core Text NERFINISHED ⓘ Quartz 2D NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSupport | multilingual text ⓘ |
| platform |
classic Mac OS
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iOS ⓘ iPadOS ⓘ macOS ⓘ tvOS NERFINISHED ⓘ watchOS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
ATSUI
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Core Graphics NERFINISHED ⓘ Core Text NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replaces | Font Manager NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scope | operating system level ⓘ |
| supports |
OpenType fonts
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TrueType fonts ⓘ Type 1 fonts ⓘ Unicode NERFINISHED ⓘ bitmap fonts ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
advanced OpenType layout features
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kerning ⓘ ligatures ⓘ |
| usedFor |
font activation
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font enumeration ⓘ font metrics access ⓘ rendering text in print ⓘ rendering text on screen ⓘ |
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