A font is a complete set of characters in a particular size and style of type. This includes the letter set, the number set, and all of the special character and diacritical marks you get by pressing the shift, option, or command/control keys. For example, Times New Roman Bold Italic is one font, and Times New Roman Bold is another font. Times New Roman is a single typeface.
An alphabet of letters of one style or type. SEE TYPE FACE.
Traditionally, a complete set of characters for one typeface at one particular type size. Now used more loosely as a synonym for "typeface".
A specific design for a set of letters and characters. (WP, Gr. 6)
A collection of bitmaps or outlines which supply the graphic rendering of every character in a character set.
A complete set of characters in a typeface at a particular size. Often used synonymously with typeface.
A complete set of characters for one typeface, such as Helvetica, including uppercase and lowercase characters, numbers, and punctuation marks.
A particular style of lettering and numbering. Typical examples include: arial, courier, times. Font sizes are measured in points and can be bold or italic. Font attributes set in an HTML document are place between tags that look like these: font and /font.
A specific typeface, such as "Times Roman" or "Verdana."
A file which stores the character shapes and equations so they can be printed on the screen and over the network. These are located in the system suitcase until system 7.0.1 and in the files folder in system 7.1.
A particular size and style of typeface that contains definitions of character sets, marker sets, and pattern sets.
a) [CBEMA] A family or assortment of characters of a given size and style; for example, 9 point Bodoni Modern. b) A collection of graphic presentations of a character set. For example the font «Helvetica» may consist of character shapes appearing in bold, normal and thin (fainted) as well as these in slanted variants. Depending on the printing technology also the variation in size of the printed characters must be represented in the fonts.
A single typeface, typically consisting of all standard alphabetical characters-uppercase and lowercase letters, numerals, punctuation and special characters.
A collection of characters of a single typeface and encoding system that computers can use with a specified device (such as a monitor or printer).
Index Definition: Font Style Description: Used to change color, style, and size of fonts. Has been deprecated in favour of style sheets.
the particular typeface used to display your text eg. Courier, Times New Roman, Helvetica.
A set of attributes for text characters.
A font is a character set in a certain style. The default proportional font is Times Roman at 8 points. The default fixed font is generally Courier New at 8 points. The user may set the font style and size for the base font.
Typographic style such as Times Roman or Helvetica.
a set of character shapes in a single style and size.
In hot metal composition, a font was all the characters that made up a complete typeface at a particular point size. In electronic publishing, the term "font" is used to mean a complete typeface design in any or all point sizes.
A typographic term meaning a complete set of all letters, numbers and characters of the same typeface
In typography, a complete assortment of all the necessary characters for a particular size and style (face) of type required for ordinary typesetting.
a single uniform style of alpha-numeric characters, also known as a typeface. Font styles used in film/video production are consistent with those used in the print industry and most are available in normal, bold, italic, and extended character sets.
(1) For bitmapped fonts, a complete set of glyphs in one typeface, size, and style. (2) For outline fonts, a complete set of glyphs in one typeface and style. A font also has a table that associates those glyphs with their equivalent character codes. (3) A style object property. It is the reference to the font to use in drawing the text of a shape. (4) A collection of glyphs that usually have some element of design consistency such as the shapes of the counters, the design of the stem, stroke thickness, or the use of serifs.
A collection of glyphs, generally with at least one glyph associated with each character in the font's character set, often with an encoding. A font contains much of the information needed to turn a sequence of bytes into a set of pictures representing the characters specified by those bytes. In traditional typesetting a font was a collection of little blocks of metal each with a graven image of a letter on it. Traditionally there was a different font for each point-size.
Complete assortment of letters, figures, punctuation marks and symbols in a particular type.
All the letters, numbers, and punctuation points in one size in a type style.
The total characters in a complete thypeface, including caps, lowercase, figures, and punctuation.
A particular style and size of type including all of the associated characters.
(n) The size and style of text characters.
A collection of characters which constitutes a character set. These characters can be either text or graphics images.
A description of how to display a set of characters. The description includes the shape of the characters, spacing between characters, effects (for example, bold, italics, and underline) and the size of the characters.
A set of letters, numbers, punctuation marks, and symbols of a given design and size. Fonts requested by the computer must be in printer's setup in order for printing to happen.
A complete assortment of type of a given design, style and size.
the size and general appearance of text written in a window.
The style of type used. AT&T uses the Gill Sans, Trade Gothic and Minion families of fonts.
A specific set of shapes for a character set. Old English is one example of a font (it's more complicated than that, but I'm not going into it here).
A single family of like characters in a type style.
a complete assortment of letters, numbers, punctuation marks etc., of a given style and size.
The design of a set of characters (i.e., Times Roman).
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A single uniform style of alphanumeric characters, also referred to as a type face.
A font is the overall design for a set of written characters. It describes the size, weight (for example, bold) and spacing of a character. The choice of font is very important and often different fonts are used in printed publications and websites. The RNID website uses a Verdana 14 point normal font, but if you find this too small you can resize it by changing the settings in your browser.
A font is a complete set of characters in a particular style and typically consists of a full letter set, number set and all other special characters you get by pressing the shift, control or option keys. Examples of fonts include "Arial", "Courier New" etc.
all type characters in a specific style at one size, including all essential letters, numerals and punctuation.
Text style, such as Times New Roman, Arial, Helvetica, etc.
a set of characters with the same style such as Courier or Arial.
In a simplistic sense, a font can be thought of as the physical description of a character set. While the character set will define what sets of bits map to what letters, numbers, and other symbols, the font will define what each letter, number, and other symbol looks like. Fonts can be either fixed width or variable width and independently, either bitmapped or vectored. The size of the large characters in a font is typically measured in points.
A selected type style used to display text. Fonts will display differently under different circumstances so it is important to use fonts that the majority of users will have on their systems and which will display cleanly. Fonts such as "Arial" and "Helvetica" are often recommended to display web-based text.
The typeset used in page design.
a complete set of all the characters of the same design and style. The characters in a font can be figures or symbols as well as alphanumeric characters. See also type style.
A set of graphic characters that have a characteristic design, or a font designer"s concept of how the graphic characters should appear. The design specifies the attributes of its graphic characters, including shape, graphic pattern, style, size, weight, and increment. For example: 9-point Helvetica uses size and style.
Also known as a typestyle. A lettering style chosen for your wording. Many typestyles are available for you to choose from. Different brands may have the same styles under different names.
this is the term for the type of text style used on a webpage. A larger font or smaller font would also mean to use smaller or larger versions of a given font.
CSS allows excellent control over the way your text is displayed. Edittable attibutes include colour, family, size, weight and style.
The name used to describe a family of characters with distinctive shapes. Examples: Palatino and Avant Garde are "proportional fonts," whereas Courier and Monaco are "non-proportional" and, when printed, will faithfully reproduce the look of the text you see on-line.
The generic name for the many different styles of typefaces.
A name given to a collection of text characters at a specific size, weight, and style. Arial and Times New Roman are examples of font names.
strictly a complete set of type for printing; nowadays mostly it refers to a particular design for the whole set of characters available through a computer keyboard.
A specific design (size and style) for a set of letters and characters.
a specific size and style of type within a type family
a collection of attributes associated with printed or displayed text
a collection of character images called "glyphs" and mappings from character codes to the glyphs
a collection of characters and symbols that share a common design
a collection of graphic elements that are assigned to each of the characters in the ASCII or ANSI character set
a collection of letter shapes
a collection of letters of the same style, face or size
a collection of stylized characters of the same size
a collection of various character images that can be used to display or print text
a combination of informational tables and a set of images
a complete character set, in one particular style
a complete set of characters, following the standard set of the typographical characters used in Western countries, used by Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows
a complete set of type in one point size and type face
a complete set of unique characters with its own style and features
a drawing layout for character sets
a graphical description of a set of characters that are used to increase efficiency whenever a set of small, similar sized patterns are repeatedly used
a list of symbols that can be drawn on a device context to produce a readable message
a matrix of glyphs (typically characters)
an array of glyphs (typically characters)
an art effect made of designed symbols used to represent letters and other characters on a field, a control or a label
an image with associated character data
an implementation of a typefaces character set
an indexed collection of glyphs , which are specifications of character shapes
an indexed set (not necessarily an array, because there may be gaps in sequences of the legal indices) of glyphs (character shapes or images) which can be displayed on a printed page or video monitor
an individual style and weight, for example, Times Bold
an individual style and weight, i
an object which determines the appearance of text
a particular point size and style variation (such as italic) with a given type face
a pattern of characters designed to display a character, a word, or a group of words following a particular concept or design
a resource describing how text characters are drawn
a series of characters designed to draw symbols or readable letters
a series of letters that are set up so that you can type, enlarge, edit and manipulate them in different ways
a set of bitmaps that depict the symbols in a character set
a set of characters and symbols created with a distinct design
a set of characters in a certain style, such as Times Roman, Helvetica Bold, or Roma Italic, which usually includes the alphabet, numbers, and some special symbols
a set of characters in a single style defined by size, weight, and other features
a set of characters (letters, numbers, punctuation marks, etc
a set of glyph representations, all observing same basic motif according to design, size, appearance, and other attributes associated with the entire set
a set of letters and numbers all one size and style
a special kind of sprite that contains letters, numbers, and symbols
a styled up text, you can get these in many thousands of different samples
a style of printed text characters
a style of type, usually grouped in families such as Helvetica or Times
a type-face or the shape of the letters
a type style in which text characters are printed
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a way to add style to text
The style of text used . Default fonts are usually 'Geneva' or 'Times'.
A set of letters, numerals, and shapes, which conform to a specific set of design criteria.
A collection of characters with a consistent size and style. (7/96)
Used to describe the appearance of type. Each font has a specific look that differentiates it from others, whether it is large and 'blocky', simulated calligraphy or children's handwriting. Used creatively, fonts help to set the tone of a document and make it more interesting to read.
A set of graphic characters that have a characteristic design, or a font designer's concept of how the graphic characters should appear. The characteristic design specifies the characteristics of its graphic characters. Examples of characteristics are shape, graphic pattern, style, size, weight, and increment.
a set of type all of one design (e.g. Times), including a variety of font types, sizes (e.g. 12 point), and styles (e.g. bold) available from a menu.
A collection of characters with predefined styles and sizes - such as Courier or Times New' Roman.
The style and size of text.
A complete assortment of type characters of one style (e.g., Times New Roman).
a particular style or design of lettering FONT
A full set of type characters with a distinctive style, in a range of sizes. Most PCs, laptops and desktop publishing programmes let you choose from different fonts to suit the requirements of the design.
The type and style of text letters and characters you see in documents, web pages and graphical images of words (images that look like they're typed or written). There are many font choices available to choose from (for example, Helvetica, Times New Roman and Courier New). On hard copy, Courier New looks like it was produced by an old-fashioned typewriter, Helvetica (or Arial/Verdana)) is a good choice for clean-looking headings and Times New Roman is a good choice for distinctive body text. On a computer monitor, however, the 'tails' used in Times New Roman are often not clearly visible, so Helvetica (or Arial/Verdana) tends to be the universal choice (for both headings and body text) of the professional designers (look at all the Help pages in the main Applications). Having said that, some people use funky font styles to express themselves.
often used interchangeably with "face" or "type face," is now actually the name of type, such as Helvetica or Times Bold. Traditionally, a single size, weight and style of type.
A complete set of type characters of the same cut and weight, such as Univers 65 Bold. Includes uppercase and lowercase letters, numerals, and punctuation marks.
In typography, a complete set of characters of one particular size, style, and weight, including punctuation marks, symbols, and numbers.
The style of text character (such as Courier or Times Roman).
Type and size of text within document.
A set of character images that can be used for character output operations.
A set of characters of a certain size and style.
A collection of letters, numbers, punctuation marks, and other typographical symbols with a consistent appearance: the size and style of which can be changed easily.
A complete set of type of one style and size. For example, all the characters associated with 12 point Arial constitute a font.
Particular set of letters and symbols of one size and typeface.
A style of lettering. Most computers contain a dozen or more fonts from which to choose.
A style of type designated by a family name.
A character set or typeface family denoting a particular size and style, either for on-screen display or printing, usually on a laser or inkjet printer.
The font refers to the style of lettering, also called "typestyle", or "lettering style."
A description of how a certain set of characters should be displayed.
All the characters in one size and weight of a typeface (this font is 10-point Times).
The name used for a complex assortment of type in one size and face.
The design or typestyle of a complete character set of printers type.
A complete range of characters of a single type style. Capitals, Lowercase, Small caps, Lining and Non-lining numbers, Superior and inferior figures, Fractions, Ligatures, Digraph, Mathematical signs, Punctuation, Accented characters and Dingbats.
In composition, a complete assortment of type in one size and face.
A particular collection of glyphs of a typeface of a given size, weight and style, for example "Times Roman Bold 12 point".
The name of a style of text.
A set of lettering styles.
A font is a specific typeface of a certain size and style. For example, one ...
All the letters, numbers, and symbols for a specific size of a typeface.
the visual appearance of letters, numbers and symbols, e.g., courier, Arial, Times New Roman.
An alphabet of letters in a particular style. Fonts can belong to any of several types (such as sans serif, decorative, blackletter, etc.). The term "font" used to refer only to a particular style of type in a particular size (for example, Garamond 12 point), and "typeface" was used to refer to the entire collection of letters of a particular style in any size' now, however, "font" and "typeface" are used interchangeably.
In type setting this refers to the complete assortment of characters that make up a type face of one size and face weight.
A description of a complete typeset from a particular typeface.
A set of characters whose appearance is defined by a combination of typeface, style, weight, and size elements.
Refers to a specific typeface in a specific point size and style. Therefore, Times New Roman Bold 12 points is a single font while Times New Roman 10 points is another separate font. Today, in common usage font refers to any digital typeface that can normally be rendered in a variety of sizes. Fonts must be embedded in artwork files, as they are required for printing and displaying the text properly.
A word that identifies the look of the letters displayed on your computer.
All of the characters and associated spacing of one size of one typeface.
A character set (alphabet and numerals) of a specified design and size.
All the characters of one size of one type face. Special characters (not in the font) are called "pi" characters.
An assortment of one size and style of Type.
One complete collection of letters, punctuation marks, numbers, and special characters with a consistent and identifiable typeface, weight (roman or bold), posture (upright or italic), and type size. The term often is used incorrectly in reference to a typeface or font family.
A size and style for a given font family. For example Arial 14 pt. is a font within the Arial family.
A font, is a set of characters that all belong to the same size and style of a typeface. For example, Verdana is a typeface, and 10 point italic Verdana is a font; 11 point bold Verdana is a different font. HTML browsers display a limited number of type faces - Arial, Verdana, Times New Roman, Georgia and Helvetica. If a special font is specified in the HTML page, the visitor's computer must have the font installed on their machine to see the page as intended. HTML fonts are specified in groups of 3 - if the first is not available the second is displayed. If the second is also unavailable then the default user's sans-serif font is displayed.
"Font" is used to describe the typeface, size, style, and spacing of text.
Refers to the style and width of a particular design of letters, numbers and symbols, such as Helvetica Bold or Times Roman. Until the development of the computer and scalable fonts, references to fonts also included the size, such as 10-point.
A set of characters in a typeface, such as Helvetica, Times, Optima, or Palatino. Most sets consist of upper and lowercase letters, numerals, punctuation marks, and extended characters.
A set of type characters of one style and size.
A specific style and group of letterforms consisting of one complete set of letters, numerals, symbols,and punctuation used for composing written communications in a given typeface. Typically provided in digital form ( formerly available in hot metal and photographic composed typography). Fonts come in various weights (i.e., light,regular,bold and black weights). Many fonts also are provided in italic formats. Fonts can be condensed (made to look narrower) or extended (wider).
A complete set of letters, numerals, and symbols of the same typestyle of a given typeface. Examples of typefaces are Baskerville, Century, and Helvetica. Examples of fonts are Baskerville Italic, Baskerville Bold, and Baskerville Bold Italic. Fonts may be a piece of hardware, such as a daisywheel, or they may be resident in the software.
typeface or typestyle; for example, Courier, Times, Helvetica; characterized by the presence or absence of serifs.
A specific instance of a typeface. For example, 'Times 12pt Bold'.
The software that creates a typeface on a computer screen.
a single style, weight and size of a typeface, such as Times Roman, Arial, Helvetica, Brush Script, etc..
A single style, size and weight of a typeface. For example, 12-point Goudy italics and 9-point Goudy roman are different fonts, even though they are members of the same type family.
A font is the design for a set of characters, including qualities like size and spacing. A variable font is one where different characters have different widths. A fixed width font is one where every character has the same width.
use this font when annotating the image with text
A set of characters in the same face. For example, Times Roman is a typeface, italic Times Roman is a font; bold Times Roman is a different font. While font selection is typically considered very important to graphic design, browser users can override the default font when displaying a web page. Unfortunately, a computer can only read a font that has been inbedded in its system. Some o the most common fonts are: Times Roman, Courier, and Helvetica).
A text formatting term: A complete assortment of printer characters in a particular type style, typeface, size and orientation. Most fonts include letters, numbers, punctuation and some special symbols. Note that the Roman (normal), Italic, Bold and Bold Italic typeface forms of any type style and size are each separate fonts. A font family is a complete set of characters in the same type style, including all sizes and typefaces, such as bold, italic and underline.
Different word processing typefaces (styles). Examples include Times New Roman and Ariel.
A set of all the characters of a single size and weight for a given typeface. For example, 12pt bold Arial.
Consisting of a single typeface (Times Roman, Arial, Century Schoolbook, etc.) and attributes (size, bold, italics, underlined).
One weight, width and style of a typeface. Before scalable type, there was little distinction between the terms font, face and family. Font and face still tend to be used interchangeably, although the term face is usually more correct.
Style of text displayed within box
a complete set of related characters of a given size and style
The same meaning as Typeface to traditional typesetters. A collection of letters, numbers, punctuation marks, and other typographical symbols with a consistent appearance, size and style; the size and style can be changed readily
A typographic style used to display or print characters. Times Roman, Courier, and Helvetica are three examples.
A typeface or "type" of type, can be specific such as "Template Gothic" being one font and "Template Gothic Bold" being another
An ordered collection of character glyphs that provides a graphical representation of characters in a character set.
Historically, an collection of metal letters and numbers, all the same size and type with a predetermined amount of each letter or number. Today, the term refers generically to type or letter styles.
Collection of characters (letters, numbers and other symbols) of a given design, type and style. Example: Times New Roman, 12 point.
A complete set of characters and symbols in one typographic design.
All of the characters in a particular typeface, which can come in a wide variety of Point Sizes. The default system font of the Amiga is Topaz 8, but this can be changed by running the program SetFont.
show HIDE The complete set of letters, numerals, and punctuation marks in one size of one typeface.
The style of a letter or digit.
A single style, weight, and size of a typeface (i.e., 14 pt Arial Condensed)
A set of properties that describe the appearance of text: font family (such as Times), typeface (such as bold or italic), and size (in points). See also point.
The complete set of characters for one typeface at one particular type size, excluding attributes such as bold or Italic. In modern usage, the term ‘font’ is often confused with ‘typeface’ and ‘family’. Traditionally, ’font’ represents a complete set of characters (including all the letters of the alphabet, punctuation, and symbols) which share the same typeface, style, and size. For example, 12 point Goudy Oldstyle Bold is a font. Fonts can be as small as the basic alphabet or have hundreds of characters. Some languages, like Japanese, have huge numbers, making them more difficult to access from the standard keyboard. Derived from the word ‘found’, from type foundry.
The collection of all letters, numbers, punctuation marks, etc. within a certain size and style.
All characters of a particular type.
A set of characters having a unified design.
A complete assortment of type characters, including numbers, punctuation marks and dingbats, in one face and size.
As it relates to computers today, a font is a specific style of displaying characters (a typeface), often scalable to a variety of sizes. "Arial" is a...
In modern usage the term "font" is often confused with "typeface" and "family". Traditionally, the term font represents a complete set of characters or symbols, which share the same size and style. For example, 12 point Goudy Oldstyle Bold is a font. Fonts can be as small as the basic alphabet or up to hundred of characters. Some languages, like Japanese, can exceed these numbers, which make them more difficult to access from the standard keyboard. Originally derived from the word "found" as a typefoundry.
A specific typeface. A font name often contains a reference to the style name, such as "Times Roman" or "Century Oldstyle."
Used to describe particular typeface or lettering. Common examples include Helvetica, Times New Roman, Arial, etc.
One complete set of letters, numbers, punctuation marks and special characters, etc., of a given typeface size and design.
In typography, a set of all characters in a typeface.
The collection of a typeface including the lower case, caps, numbers and special characters having unified design. This can be an important consideration when copy includes foreign terms or names with special characters. The different kinds and quantity of characters in a font will vary according to the manufacturer of the typesetting system.
A set of characters in a specific typeface, at a specific point size and in a specific style.
A complete assortment of letters, numbers, punctuation marks, etc. of a given size and design of type. At BOPI, the entire Adobe font library resides on our desktop equipment. You should always include your screen and printer fonts with your file, as any adjustments you have made to the fonts need to be with the file.
a set of type characters of the same design (and with hot metal typesetting, the same size); for example upper case and lower case, numerals, punctuation marks, accents, ligatures. Part of a family which may include italic and bold fonts. Maybe in the form of metal matrices for hot metal, film matrices, strips, grids, or discs for the earlier phototypesetters, or a digital font for current systems.
A family or assortment of characters of a given size and style of type. Bar codes can be printed using Bar Code True Type Font
Complete assortment of characters of one typeface.
A specific size and type of printable character.
This is a typesetting term used in desktop publishing for computers. It is a specific style of text, like ROMAN.
The style of a typeface; thousands of different fonts are available in word processing programs, on CDs, and for download on the internet. The creative use of fonts for journaling and titles can enliven and enhance scrapbook pages.
All the characters of a typeface that are the same weight and style.
All the letters, numbers, punctuation marks and symbols required for a particular style and size of typeface.
In composition, a complete assortment of letters, numbers, punctuation marks, etc. of a given size and design.
an assortment or set of all type all in one size or style
A set of letters, numbers and symbols that share a unified design. The design is called a typeface.
A particular style for displayed or printed characters, including the shape, weight, and slant.
Or typeface. A complete set of characters in a typeface.
All the character of one typeface and size. Example: Helvetica Medium including upper and lower case, numerials, punctuation marks, swash characters and special symbols. It is also the name given a typesetting master.
This is the letters, punctuation, numbers and symbols that make up a single typeface. An example of a font is Eras Light ITC. Another font is Eras Bold ITC. The typeface in this instance is Eras. It is the variations of this typeface that are fonts.
A collection of specific letter forms. For example, most text in this document is printed in a Roman font. But this text is in an italic font and this text is in a sans-serif font. [Note: these fonts changes may not appear in some electronic versions of this document.
The characters which make up a complete typeface and size.
a member of a specific typeface family
The graphical appearance of characters either in print or on a monitor. Fonts can be italicized, in bold face or underlined.
The style of type used. A company should use a set family of fonts. Typically one font is used for corporate names and lock-ups and a secondary font family is used for editorial text.
Used to describe a complete typeset from a particular typeface. Examples include Helvetica, Times New Roman, Arial, etc.
A set of letters, numbers, punctuation marks, and symbols in a given size and design. Some fonts can be scaled to any size while others are a fixed size. Source: Microsoft's New Computer Users Glossary
A set of letters, numbers and symbols in particular style. Popular Windows fonts are Arial and Times New Roman. Note: the font in this glossary is Arial.
1.. A super or chyron. 2. A style of type or typeface used in chyrons. (v) To insert a font ( chyron) in the video.
A particular letter style that is displayed on screen or printed out. If you wish your computer applications to have additional fonts you must place the new font within your font folder. On Windows PC's the folder can be found within the Windows folder itself, i.e.: C:\windows\Fonts
The style of lettering on the computer. There are thousands of different fonts available in word processors, on CDâ€(tm)s, and downloading off the internet. It makes it very easy to have straight, nice writing for your journaling.
A typeface of a specified type, style and size. Example: 12-point bold Times New Roman; 10 cpi (character-per-inch) Brougham italic.
A design for a set of characters. A font is the combination of typeface and other qualities such as size pitch and spacing. For example Arial is a typeface that we are using in this page, but within Arial, there are many fonts to choose from--different sizes, italic, bold, and so on. The height of characters in a font is measured in points, each point being approximately 1/72 inch.
A collection of characters (both textual and symbolic) that share common visual elements between all characters of one size of one type style. These visual elements can be broken up into several categories which uniquely identify the font. The major categories are the name of the typeface, the size of type, the style of type, and the weight of type.
A collection of letters, numbers, and symbols whose design is based on similar characteristics.
Appearance of text or letters. Includes consideration of serifs, letter thickness, kerning, leading, and style of typeface.
In typesetting (composition), the complete assortment of type of one size and face, including numerals, capitals, lower-case, diphthongs, edit marks and punctuation.
a font is a typeface with certain characteristics. Common fonts include Times New Roman, Courier, Arial, and Helvetica.
Letters, numbers, punctuation, and special characters of a particular typeface available in typesetting.
A typeface. The style in which text appears.
A style of type, such as Times New Roman, or Ariel.
Font allows you to change the style of the text. There are a number of different styles of Font.
Formation of readable characters. Common readable fonts include OCR-A, OCR-B, and E-13B.Click here for a sample.
set of printable characters of the same typeface and size.
Any set of characters of the same typeface (design) and type size (measured in points). For example, Times Roman 12-point is a font: Times Roman is the typeface, and 12-point is the size. (There are 72 points in an inch.)
The different lettering styles available for text.
A complete set of characters (letters, digits, and special characters) of one size and one typeface. "Ten-point, Helvetica, bold" is an example of a font.
the style of type used in a manuscript. For example, Times New Roman or Arial.
A set of characters in the same typeface. For example, labels in Windows are normally displayed in a font called Helvetica or Arial. The characters do not have serifs ( the pointy bits on the edges of letters). Windows has True Type fonts that can be printed and displayed in almost any size, and printer fonts that can be printed in predefined sizes
The style of lettering. Thousands of fonts available. Hint: For a variety of fonts consider using a Word Processing program to print out words for scrapbooks.
fount Traditionally a TYPEFACE of specific size and TYPESTYLE. Nowadays (technically) a typestyle of any size or (generally) a TYPE FAMILY. Fonts traditionally came in a series of incremental sizes, but modern computers allow any size to be made.
A type face. A font usually has several styles in various weights and versions.
One style, weight, and width of a typeface. An example is Times Roman Bold Extended. Times is a typeface family; Roman is a style; Bold is a weight; Extended is a width. The terms font and typeface are to be used interchangeably.
A set of printing characters that share the same distinctive appearance. Fonts are used on a computer to display text on the monitor and print documents.
An ordered collection of character glyphs which provides a graphical representation of characters within a character set.
specifications: Allows you to change fonts within a document. For example, you can specify bold, italics, and underlining. Most word processors also let you change the font size and even the typeface.
Complete alphabet of any typeface in a given point size and design.
A collection of letters, numbers, and symbols in a distinctive typographic design.
Character style used by a program in order to display or print a text.
A typeface style, such as Helvetica, Times Roman, etc., in a single size. A single font includes all 26 letters, along with punctuation, numbers, and other characters.
Where your baby is baptized, of course. Sets of typefaces (or characters) that come in different styles and sizes
The look of the printed text on the page. For screenplays, Courier 12 point is the standard (a fixed font which in practical terms means that an l or an m, although the m being wider, occupy the same width of space). For stageplays, while Courier 12 point is often used, Times Roman and other proportional spaced, clearly readable fonts are also acceptable. (Proportional spaced fonts make adjustments for skinnier letters; text usually takes less space.) – this has been edited.
A specific size and style of printer's type.
A particular design, shape, and size of lettering, or of a printing typeface.
This is the typeface. You can change fonts, however the end user can override your changes. The default is usually Times New Roman. You can create a Font list in the Property Inspector.
a software feature you use to change the style of the text in a document
A set of alphanumeric characters that share a particular typeface and size style.
A set of typographic characters that share certain design characteristics. It belongs to a typeface family: It can have different styles, italic, bold, etc.
While often confused with “typeface,” traditionally, font refers to a complete set of type for a particular typeface in a particular size. For instance, 12 point Times New Roman would be a font while Times New Roman would be the typeface.
A typeface or the design of the individual alphabetical and numeric characters.
A set of characters of one style or typeface, consisting of the alphabet (upper and lower case), numerals 0-9 and various symbols.
A logical set of related patterns representing text characters or point symbology (e.g., A,B,C). A font pattern is the basic building block for markers and text symbols.
A set of letters, numbers, punctuation marks, and symbols that are a given size and design. Some fonts can be scaled to any size while others are a fixed size. Outline fonts, TrueType fonts and PostScript fonts are examples of scaleable fonts.
In traditional printing, a typeface in a single size and a particular weight and style; in current usage, a typeface family in any size, weight, and style.
the carrier for a typeface style.
A set of printing characters shares the same distinctive appearance. Fonts are used on your computer to display text on your monitor and print documents on your printer.
Typeface in digital format
A set of characters, such as Arial or Times New Roman.
Style of type/letters used when printing documents or checks.
A typeface or particular style of type.
A complete set of type of one size and style.
A complete collection of letters, punctuation marks, numbers, and special characters with a consistent and identical typeface, weight (Roman or bold), posture (upright or italic) and font size. Technically, font still refers to one complete set of characters in a given typeface, weight, and size, such as Helvetica italic 12 - but the terms has come to be used interchangably for refering to typefaces or font families.
A style of type designated by a name such as Roman or Sans Serif.
A typeface or style of a letter.
Font is a technical term meaning type of lettering style. The typestyle you choose can say a lot about your mood or tone for the correspondence. Some fonts convey a feeling of fun and are perfect for birth announcements or children's stationery. Other fonts are more serious or romantic and might be better suited for corporate cards or wedding invitations.
A particular typeface in a specific point size.
A logical set of related patterns representing text characters or point symbols. Courier, Helvetica, and Times are three types of font.
Contains the definition of a typeface packed into a Texture. It is normally used with a TextLayer. class
A complete set of letters, numbers and symbols in a specific typeface design used by PCs and printers to represent data and information on a PC monitor or printed page. Each font has an assigned name and specifications for orientation, symbol set, spacing, pitch, point size, typeface, style and weight.
A complete set of type characters in a specific size and style.
All the alphanumeric characters and punctuation marks in a typeface
A set of characters of one specific character set, typeface, size, and style.
A given typeface in a particular size.
1. a family of typefaces, such as Helvetica. See Fontographer, FONTMAP.TXT, TrueType. 2. font of wisdom, a knowledgable person.
A complete assortment of letters, numbers, and symbols of a specific size and design. There are hundreds of different fonts ranging from businesslike type styles to fonts composed only of special characters such as math symbols or miniature graphics.
A set of characters of the same typeface (such as Garamond), style (such as italic), and weight (such as bold). A font consists of all the characters available in a particular style and weight for a particular design; a typeface consists of the design itself. Fonts are used by computers for on-screen displays and by printers for hard-copy output. In both cases, the fonts are stored either as bit maps (patterns of dots) or as outlines (defined by a set of mathematical formulas). Even if the system cannot simulate different typefaces on the screen, application programs may be able to send information about typeface and style to a printer, which can then reproduce the font if a font description is available.
The style of type to be used on the product. Examples include Helvetica, Times New Roman and Arial.
A particular style set of characters e.g Arial, Times New Roman, Comic Sans. which you can choose to use in many software packages.
A typeface that is described by its letter style, its height in points, and its presentation attribute.
A complete assortment of type of one size and face.
I expect you're looking for a clear definition of "font" as opposed to *"typeface". Unfortunately, there isn't one.
Typeface. The type face will be in either one of two primary formats, one being TrueType (TT) that is used for screenbased type or alternatively two being a PostScript (PS) which is used for Print. The set of characters in a particular style which are used to display text on and off screen. A document may contain many different fonts and font types.
A graphical design applied to all numerals, symbols and characters in the alphabet. A font usually comes in different sizes and provides different styles, such as bold, italic, and underlining for emphasizing text.
Set of letters, numerals etc, of one face and style. Each font has a name (e.g. Arial, Sassoon) and can be displayed in different sizes. Some designed specifically for legibility.
A specific typeface, point size, and weight (e.g., 10 pt Helvetica Bold).
A graphic design applied to a collection of numbers, symbols, and characters. A font describes a certain typeface, along with other qualities such as size, spacing, and pitch.\ See also: OpenType fonts; PostScript fonts; screen fonts; Type 1 fonts
a file containing a collection of glyphs and related supporting information used to render text.
A complete set of type characters in a particular style and size.
A character set of a given type size and style.
The glyphs or shapes that render a character on the computer screen or on a printer. The mapping between character codes and glyphs may be different on different operating systems.
Character set from a font family.
A set of characters with the same typeface, point size and weight.
A font is a complete set of characters in a particular size and style of type. This includes the letter set, the number set, and all of the special character and diacritical marks. If you are providing digital files to Printing Services, all fonts must be submitted on your digital file.in a folder named "fonts"
A style of type within a specific typeface, which includes a complete character set, such as letters, number s and punctuation at a specified point size (10, 12) and style (bold, italic).
A font is a graphical style applied to the alphabet and other common characters. There are three general styles of font: serif, sans-serif and script. Serif fonts are topped and tailed by little horizontal strokes called serifs which provide a reading line, which means that serif fonts are often used for large amounts of printed text. Sans-serif fonts appear less fussy and cluttered so are often used for headings and smaller amounts of text and on the web, where resolution is lower than in print. Script fonts mimic handwriting and are used to convey a casual style.
Sets of type characters of different design and size
A set of characters of type in a specific size and style. Also see the graphic design page.
A set of characters. In the world of metal type, this means a given alphabet, with all its accessory characters, in a given size. In the world of digital type, it is the character set itself or the digital information encoding it.
A particular typeface of text (e.g., Times, Courier, Arial).
Historically, an assortment of letters and/or numbers, all the same size and type having a pre-determined amount of each letter or number. The term today refers generically to letter styles.
A collection of glyphs for displaying text in a particular typeface.
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a typeface that contains the characters of an alphabet or some other letterforms.
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A style of lettering. There is a multitude of letter shapes that come with programs, you can also purchase font software.
The style of a computer typeface; thousands of different fonts are available in word processing programs, on CD's, and for download on the internet.
A font is a set of printable or displayable text character in specific style and size. See Sans serif, Serif.
In typography, a font is traditionally defined as a complete character set of a single size of a particular typeface. For example, all characters for 9 point Bulmer is a font, and the 10 point size would be another font.