font
NounWordNet 3.0
Noun (2)
- a specific size and style of type within a type familySynonyms: founttypefacefacecase
- bowl for baptismal waterSynonyms: baptismal fontbaptistrybaptistery
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Font \Font\, n. [F. fonte, fr. fondre to melt or cast. See Found to cast, and cf. Fount a font.] (Print.) A complete assortment of printing type of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing with that variety of types; a fount. [1913 Webster]
Font \Font\, n. [AS. font, fant, fr. L. fons, fontis, spring, fountain; cf. OF. font, funt, F. fonts, fonts baptismaux, pl. See Fount.]
1.A fountain; a spring; a source. [1913 Webster]
Bathing forever in the font of bliss.— Young.[1913 Webster]
2.A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing. [1913 Webster]
That name was given me at the font.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
font
<text> A set of glyphs (images) representing the characters from some particular character set in a particular size and typeface. The image of each character may be encoded either as a bitmap (in a bitmap font) or by a higher-level description in terms of lines and areas (an outline font).
There are several different computer representations for fonts, the most widely known are Adobe Systems, Inc.'s PostScript font definitions and Apple's TrueType. Window systems can display different fonts on the screen and print them. [Other types of font?]
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