Bitstream Speedo, or Speedo, is an obsolete scalable font format created by

Bitstream Inc Bitstream Inc. was a type foundry that produced digital typefaces. It was founded in 1981 by Matthew Carter and Mike Parker among others. It was located in Marlborough, Massachusetts. The font business, including MyFonts, was acquired by Monotype ...

.PCmag Speedo Definition
/ref> Speedo was used on Atari ST,

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, in the XyWrite

word processor A word processor (WP) is a device or computer program that provides for input, editing, formatting, and output of text, often with some additional features. Word processor (electronic device), Early word processors were stand-alone devices ded ...

, and in very early versions of WordPerfect and Microsoft Windows. Speedo was replaced by more popular font types like

Type 1 font PostScript fonts are font files encoded in outline font specifications developed by Adobe Systems for professional digital typesetting. This system uses PostScript file format to encode font information. "PostScript fonts" may also separately ...

s. Before Speedo was considered obsolete it was supported by the

X Window System The X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems. X provides the basic framework for a GUI environment: drawing and moving windows on the display device and interacting ...

through the speedo

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, and most

Linux distribution A Linux distribution (often abbreviated as distro) is an operating system made from a software collection that includes the Linux kernel and, often, a package management system. Linux users usually obtain their operating system by downloading on ...

s had a Speedo font package, but support was removed from X in the X11R7.0 release in 2005.X.Org: Deprecated in X11R7
/ref> Speedo fonts have the

file extension A filename extension, file name extension or file extension is a suffix to the name of a computer file (e.g., .txt, .docx, .md). The extension indicates a characteristic of the file contents or its intended use. A filename extension is typically ...

''.spd''.

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