Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
the font that is displayed on a computer screen;
- Example: "when the screen font resembles a printed font a document may look approximately the same on the screen as it will when printed"[syn: screen font, raster font]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
raster font
n 1: the font that is displayed on a computer screen; "when the
screen font resembles a printed font a document may look
approximately the same on the screen as it will when
printed" [syn: screen font, raster font]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
bitmap font
raster font
A font where each character is stored as an array
of pixels (a bitmap). Such fonts are not easily scalable,
in contrast to vectored fonts (like those used in
PostScript).
[Examples?]
(1995-02-16)