NULL THE TRUETYPE FONT This font is null. It's the smallest possible TrueType binary still valid on OS X and with most of its bytes wiped out. It is used in hard-core font production as a base for further compilation. THE STRATEGY These are the required tables only. Format of each is chosen for the font's shortest overall length and each is stripped to a bare minimum. Remaining words are wiped out wherever possible. See the dumps for comments on each single word in each table. FURTHER HACKING The source files represent dumps of raw hex data that can be fused back by OS X Font Tools. You can, of course, hack the binary itself. In fact, this would allow to wipe out some additional bytes, which would otherwise be restored by every sane font table fuser. TODO It would be nice to have it validating on other platforms too, but that should rather imply separate binaries to keep things really tight and tidy. Note that ftxvalidator still spits few warnings, some of them technically unjustified. Preventing either type although increases font's size, it makes the logs look nicer. It's not yet decided if that should take the priority. CREDITS & COPYRIGHT NOTICE Similar attempt but targeting font detection in Web browsers can be found at http://processingjs.nihongoresources.com/the_smallest_font/. By Mike Kamermans. Some cracks have been stolen. Hat tip. Null the TrueType font is a hack by Grzegorz Rolek, 2012. Copyrights apply. Subject to the BSD 3-Clause License; please see LICENSE for details.