freetypy.TT_OS2.vend_id

TT_OS2.vend_id

Indentifies the font vendor.

It is not the royalty owner of the original artwork but the company responsible for the marketing and distribution of the typeface that is being classified. It is reasonable to assume that there will be 6 vendors of ITC Zapf Dingbats for use on desktop platforms in the near future (if not already). It is also likely that the vendors will have other inherent benefits in their fonts (more kern pairs, unregularized data, hand hinted, etc.). This identifier will allow for the correct vendors type to be used over another, possibly inferior, font file. These id’s are assigned by Microsoft.