Fonts Help [pdftex and truetype]

[Karl Berry]

    1.  pdftex and pdflatex recognize MF and Type 1 fonts (nowadata latex
        is usually pdflatex)

Just for the record ... technically the pdftex backend can use TrueType
fonts, but it requires making a TFM (and thus choosing an encoding)
first. This is so inconvenient that no one (including me) does so, in my
experience. Thanh wrote a short article about it, a mere 11 years ago:
https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb30-1/tb94thanh.pdf

Also, perhaps worth mentioning that thanks to Bob Tennent, Michael
Sharpe, and many others, lots of fonts released as OpenType or TrueType
also have Type 1 incarnations in TeX Live/MiKTeX. --karl