Portable typelet file

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising program instructions executable to:

• receiving, at a first computer, a typelet package that includes information for automatically installing a typelet and rendering visual enhancements of text using the typelet, the typelet being a visual enhancement of text including:
• custom non-standard font, text color, stroke, stroke color, gradient color, opacity, alignment, pattern, shadow, glow, underline, scalable vector graphics, spacing, bold, italics, kerning, leading, blur, line spacing, skew, path, rotation, or size;
• and
• exposing, at the first computer, the typelet to an operating system of the first computer using the typelet package.

A system comprising:

• a means to create a typelet that includes information for automatically installing the typelet and rendering visual enhancements of text using the typelet, the typelet being a visual enhancement of text including:
• custom non-standard font, text color, stroke, stroke color, gradient color, opacity, scalable vector graphics, alignment, pattern, shadow, glow, underline, container graphic, spacing, bold, italics, kerning, leading, blur, line spacing, skew, path, rotation, or size;
• a means to package the typelet into a package;
• and
• a means to distribute the package across a computer network from a first computer to a second computer;
• and
• a means to expose the typelet to an operating system of the second computer using the package.