Hi there font experts!
I am sorting out my font collection and ran into a little question neither Google or Wikipedia could answer.
According to “Linotype FontExplorer X” my font collection is currently close to 16.000 fonts. Now I know that FontExplorer will counts all variants like bold, italic and bold-italic as separate files, so it’s really not that much, but nevertheless I feel like deleting some duplicates.
For many popular fonts I have OpenType, TrueType and Postscript versions available. Google and WikiPedia sorted out those differences pretty much for me, but I still have one big questionmark for the MT variants of fonts I have.
On screen fonts like Arial and Arial MT, Impact and Impact MT, etc, etc all look pretty much identical to me. Linotype FontExplorer X only identifies the “normal” fonts as being “OpenType” while all the MT variants are “PostScript”.
So, for a normal guy like me who only likes to do some incidental Photoshopping for online stuff, is it really any use to keep all there MT font variants? I would rather just ditch all the MT fonts, but I’m not sure if there is any use for them I didn’t run into yet.
Since this board is about fonts, this seemed like a good place to ask. 
Unless you’re outputting to print, there’s not real reason to keep Postscript fonts. Postscript fonts were the only way to output typefaces properly in older print-based applications, but the Opentype standard has superseded them with a number of new features, so if you’ve got compatibility with with OpenType on all the software you use, there’s no real reason to keep their Postscript equivalents.
Posted 2 months ago
