TTF to SUN Converter

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Unix-Native Output

SUN rasterfiles from your TTF glyphs are immediately usable on Solaris and Unix workstations — no format conversion or adaptation needed.

Data Privacy

TTF fonts are deleted from our servers immediately after conversion. SUN image outputs are purged within 24 hours for your security.

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No Solaris workstation required — convert TrueType fonts to SUN rasterfile from any modern browser on any operating system.

How to convert TTF to SUN

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Select files from Computer, Google Drive, Dropbox, URL or by dragging it on the page.

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Choose sun or any other format you need as a result (more than 200 formats supported)

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Let the file convert and you can download your sun file right afterwards

About formats

TTF (TrueType Font) is a scalable outline font format developed by Apple Computer in the late 1980s and first shipped with Mac System 7 on May 13, 1991. Microsoft licensed the technology shortly after and included TrueType support in Windows 3.1 in 1992, establishing it as the dominant desktop font technology for over a decade. TrueType describes glyph shapes using quadratic Bezier splines — simpler mathematically than the cubic Bezier curves in PostScript fonts — stored alongside a powerful instruction set (the "hinting" language) that controls exactly how outlines are rasterized at each pixel size. This instruction-based hinting gives type designers pixel-level control over rendering at small sizes on low-resolution screens, producing exceptionally crisp text. The format stores all font data — outlines, metrics, kerning, naming, and hinting — in a single file organized as a directory of tagged data tables. One advantage is universal platform support: TTF files render natively on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, and virtually every operating system and web browser without conversion or plugins. The byte-code hinting system is another distinctive strength, enabling screen rendering quality that remained superior to competing technologies until high-DPI displays reduced the importance of pixel-level optimization. TrueType's table-based architecture also proved remarkably extensible, serving as the structural foundation for the OpenType specification that added advanced typographic features and PostScript outline support on top of the TrueType container.
Developer: Apple Computer
Initial release: May 13, 1991
SUN is a raster image format associated with Sun Microsystems workstations, encompassing both the Sun Raster format (.ras) and the Sun Icon format used for window system icons and cursors on SunOS and Solaris systems. Sun Raster files, identifiable by their 0x59a66a95 magic number, store bitmap images in 1-bit monochrome, 8-bit indexed color, 24-bit BGR, or 32-bit XBGR modes, with optional run-length encoding compression and a 32-byte header. The Sun Icon subset is a simpler text-based format used for small monochrome bitmaps — window icons, cursor images, and toolbar graphics — stored as C-language data arrays that could be directly compiled into X Window and SunView applications. These icon files begin with a comment block specifying width, height, and optionally hot spot coordinates (for cursor images), followed by hexadecimal pixel values in a format readable by both the C compiler and the iconedit tool. Sun workstations running SunOS and later Solaris were foundational platforms for Unix computing, networking, and the early internet, and the SUN image formats were integral to their graphical environments. One advantage is the format's dual text/binary nature: Sun Icons are valid C source code that can be #included directly into applications, a practical approach to resource embedding that predates modern asset management systems. The Sun Raster variant's simplicity provides another strength — the 32-byte header and straightforward encoding make it one of the easiest binary image formats to parse. SUN format files are supported by ImageMagick, GIMP, XnView, and Unix image viewing tools.
Developer: Sun Microsystems
Initial release: 1982

Frequently Asked Questions

Why convert TTF to SUN?

SUN rasterfile is native to Solaris and SunOS — essential for displaying font renders on Sun workstations and within Unix-based visualization tools.

What opens SUN rasterfiles?

Sun/Solaris display tools, GIMP, XnView, ImageMagick, and various Unix image viewers handle Sun rasterfile format natively.

How does SUN differ from RAS?

SUN and RAS refer to the same Sun Microsystems rasterfile format — just different file extensions used interchangeably.

Does SUN support color images?

Yes. Sun rasterfiles support multiple color depths from 1-bit monochrome to 32-bit RGBA, covering all font rendering needs.

Is TTF to SUN free?

Absolutely free on Convertio. No registration or payment needed — just upload your font and download.