The Bible lays special stress on the fear of God as the font of wisdom.
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
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.
(Din) An article of church furniture or a fixture used for the baptism of children and adults
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 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
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
{i} typeface, type style (Computers); complete set of type (Printing); basin in which baptismal water is kept; spring, fountain (Archaic)
A complete set of characters in one typeface design See also Styles Source: NUIG
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
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 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
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 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
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
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