fount

the complete set of characters, numerals, points, etc for one size and style of typeface Can be type, or matrices Also font (U S ) or fonte or ganzer Satz or stel

The container that holds the lantern fuel, typically made of metal although very early ones were made of glass "Twist off founts" were part of the lantern frame that could be removed by twisting and dropping it from bottom of the lantern After these were discovered to be too prone to dropping off in service, most manufacturers switched to making the "insert fount" frame by which a separate fount was dropped into a well that was integrally part of the lantern With a globe in the lantern, these founts could not drop out and hence were safer Lanterns with twist-off founts therefore tend to be older, although one lantern in particular was made until recently with a twist-off fount -- the Dietz Vesta

a plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water

A fountain

There is a fountain in front of the station. - There's a fountain in front of the station.

There's a fountain in front of the station. - There is a fountain in front of the station.

a specific size and style of type within a type family

{i} fountain, source

If you describe a person or thing as the fount of something, you are saying that they are an important source or supply of it. To the young boy his father was the fount of all knowledge. = source. Variant of font. the fount of all knowledge/wisdom etc the place, person, idea etc that all knowledge, wisdom etc comes from (fountain)

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spring, source, fountain

The Bible lays special stress on the fear of God as the font of wisdom.

font

A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer. A font file

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A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters

In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.

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{n} the baptismal bason, a complete set of letters

font

(Din) An article of church furniture or a fixture used for the baptism of children and adults

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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

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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 BoldItalic typeface forms of any type style and size are each separate fonts

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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 Back to Top

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A source, wellspring, fount

font

A fountain; a spring; a source

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{i} typeface, type style (Computers); complete set of type (Printing); basin in which baptismal water is kept; spring, fountain (Archaic)

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A complete set of characters in one typeface design See also Styles Source: NUIG

font

The size, appearance and weight of a type face 18 point Times-Roman Bold is 18/72 in high in the Times-Roman style, and bold weight

font

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

font

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

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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

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A font is an array of glyphs (typically characters) The protocol does no translation or interpretation of character sets The client simply indicates values used to index the glyph array A font contains additional metric information to determine interglyph and interline spacing

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A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing

font

A computer file encapsulating such a grouping, usually consisting of an association of glyphs to bytes or Unicode code points, and providing the glyphs as either precomposed bitmaps, or instructions for drawing the glyphs as a set of vectors and Bezier curves, plus additional hints and rendering guidance for different situations

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The source (cf fountain) or mother (matrix) of the letter shapes that appear on a page A collection of glyphs used for the visual depiction of character data A font is often associated with a set of parameters, e g , size, posture, slant, weight, serifness, etc , which, when set to particular values, generate a collection of imagable glyphs The term is often confused with related terms such as type face and type style Times is a type face The font is more specific and includes size, posture, weight, etc

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bowl for baptismal water

font

A receptacle for oil in a lamp

font

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

font

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

font

A receptacle in a church for holy water - especially one used in baptism

font

A collection of glyphs used for the visual depiction of character data A font is often associated with a set of parameters (for example, size, posture, weight, and serifness), which, when set to particular values, generate a collection of imagable glyphs

font

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

font

a specific size and style of type within a type family

font

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

font

Most versatile Physical Style element of all the character formatting elements and is also the only one of this type to accept its own attributes This element greatly increases the display variations produced at the character level

font

- the collection of all letters, numbers, punctuation marks, etc within a certain size and style

font

A font is a style and size of type, such as Times New Roman, 12 point, bold A font is a set of all the characters available in one typeface and size, including uppercase and lowercase letters, punctuation, and numerals

font

A particular collection of glyphs of a typeface of a given size, weight and style, for example `Times Roman Bold 12 point'

font

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

font

In printing, a font is a set of characters of the same style and size

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In a church, a font is a bowl which holds the water used for baptisms. A complete set of type of one size and face. or typeface or type family Assortment or set of type (alphanumeric characters used for printing), all of one coherent style. Before the advent of computers, fonts were expressed in cast metal that was used as a template for printing. Fonts are now stored as digitized images that can be scaled and otherwise modified for printing on electronic printers or digital phototypesetters. Fonts typically include the normal typeface (roman) as well as italic, bold, bold italic, and sometimes extra-bold versions. See also typesetting, typography

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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

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A particular collection of characters of a typeface with unique parameters in the 'Variation vector', a particular instance of values for orientation, size, posture, weight, etc , values The word font or fount is derived from the word foundry, where, originally, type was cast It has come to mean the vehicle which holds the typeface character collection A font can be metal, photographic film, or electronic media (cartridge, tape, disk)

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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 NewRoman Bold Italic is one font, and Times NewRoman Bold is another font Times NewRoman is a single typeface

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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

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A logical set of related patterns representing text characters or point symbols Courier, Helvetica and Times are three types of font

font

A grouping of consistently-designed glyphs, having the same size, typeface (e.g., Times New Roman), and style (e.g., bold). (Also more properly referred to as a type font.)

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