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The size of the characters in points, where 1 point is 1/72 of an inch

A font size describes the height of the tallest characters in a font in terms of points It takes 72 27 points to make an inch Web browsers tend to use 8 points as the size of their base fonts by default In HTML files, font size may be modified by the Web author by using HTML tags

Size of font - stated in points

It is preferable to keep font types relative rather than absolute, so that visitors can adjust the sizes in their browsers With the font tag, use <font size="-2"> or <font size="+1"> instead of <font size="1"> or <font size="4"> With CSS, use font-size: 80%; or font-size: larger; instead of font-size: 10pt; or font-size: 18px; For more information about font sizes, see http: //www useit com/alertbox/9707a html

The size of a font, typically represented in points

Refers to the physical size of text, measured in points (pts) The more points, the larger the appearance of the text on the page

The size of the glyphs in a font in points; nominally a measure of the distance from the base line of one line of text to the base line of the next line or single-spaced text

The size of a font in points Examples of font size are 12 point and 18 point See also Styles Source: NUIG

A font size is the size of a font measured in points The more points there are in a font, the larger it will appear There are 72 points to an inch

a church article for the baptism of children and adults

This is the size of your text or writing For normal text the font should not be bigger than size 12

baptismal font

Of, relating to, or being a source for something

Of, relating to, or from a spring or fountain

Of or relating to a font. (used in baptisms)

that from which something flows or proceeds

He is a real fount of knowledge!.

A typographic font

a device from which poultry may drink

roman font

an oldstyle serif font or typeface (sometimes capitalized "Roman")

roman font

a font which is upright, as opposed to oblique or italic

roman font

a font supporting (often exclusively) Western European languages (often capitalized Roman)

printer font which is supplied by a cartridge which is connected to the printer

{n} a well, spring, spout of water

baptismal font

(Din) A baptismal font is an article of church furniture or a fixture used for the baptism of children and adults, baptistry, baptistery, font

A font

fount

baptismal font

bowl for baptismal water

bit mapped font

font in which every character is composed of a bit map image of the letter it represents

bit-mapped font

A computer font in which each character to be displayed or printed is formed as a series of points on a grid. Also called raster font

built in font

resident font, font which is permanently stored in the memory of a printer (for reading only by the printer)

cartridge font

downloadable font

{i} printer font which is transferred from the computer to the printer at the time of printing

fixed space font

font which has a specific amount of space between characters, font in which the space between characters does not change

Pertaining to a font, fountain, source, or origin; original; primitive

Some printers, notably dot-matrix printers, are limited to one or a few fonts In contrast, laser and ink-jet printers are capable of printing an almost unlimited variety of fonts Daisy-wheel printers can also print different fonts, but you need to change the daisy wheel, making it difficult to mix fonts in the same document

plural of font

Also known as the style of letters, fonts determine the appearance of text in Web documents Fonts have three attributes that can be changed: size, style, and color of text

Sets of typefaces (or characters) that come in different styles and sizes

A set of letters, numbers, punctuation marks and symbols that share a unified design The design is called a typeface

collections of characters with predefined sizes and styles

Sets of letter types and symbols; commonly used ones are Courier, Helvetica, and Times

Typestyles Letters, numbers, and symbols To output a layout to film, a printer needs both the Printer Font and its companion Screen Font

Different styles of lettering The Font used in this document is called is called Times New Roman Other common fonts are Arial, Comic Sans Return to Main Menu

The word "font" has a long history going way back to the first typesetters in the early days of printing Today, it refers to the different styles that you can make your writing look The two most common fonts are "Times News Roman" and "Arial"

refers to typefaces for your screen display and printer output it represents a graphical design which applies to all numerals, symbols and characters in the alphabet A font comes in different sizes and styles

font, a typeface

pronounced 'font' - the complete set of type of one particular face and size, available from numerous type suppliers/manufacturers on computer disks

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

something from which water flows

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

font which is located in the memory of a printer and used to print text

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)

outline font

A computer font in which each character to be displayed or printed is represented as a series of curves and lines. Outline fonts are smoothed and scaled more easily than bit-mapped fonts

printer font

A proportional font is one in which each character in the typeface takes up a proportional amount of space, relative to the other characters For instance, a lowercase "i" in a proportional font takes up much less space than does a capital W You're probably saying, "Well, duh " But proportional fonts are very different from monospaced fonts Most typewriters use monospaced fonts, where every character on the keys takes up the same amount of space--yes, a period takes as much space as a capital W You can draw lines between the columns of characters This is a monospaced font It is so dorky that it is trendy right now Ugly fonts are in

font that spaces out words according to the various widths of characters in the font

A font whose characters have varying amounts of horizontal space depending on the width of the character Thus the uppercase M takes up more horizontal space than the lowercase l

Any font in which different characters have different widths; thus, the space taken up by words having the same number of letters can vary

a set of characters which have varying widths For example a w is wider than an i

any font whose different characters have different widths

A proportional font is a font whose width varies depending on the individual characters

A proportional font's characters have different widths Proportional fonts tend to be easier to read than fixed-width fonts The user may select which proportional font to use as a base font

A set of characters with a variable amount of horizontal space allotted to each For example, the letter i has less space allotted to it than the letter w

permanent font, font which is built-in to a printer

Fonts that have letters or characters of varying widths The horizontal space occupied by each characters is "propotional" to its shape, therefore an "l" takes up less space than a "w" This is why it is impossible to line up vertical data using just the space bar if you are using proprtional fonts This is also why the unit of measurment for size is a vertical measurment, points

raster font

bit map font

resident font

scalable font

(Computers) outline font, font that is based on vector graphics, non-bitmap font that can be enlarged without distorting its shape (such as PostScript or True Type fonts)

A low-resolution version used to display the type on the screen

A part of the font suitcase (of Adobe Type 1 fonts), describes the shape of each character to the operating system so that the font can be seen onscreen

Also called a raster font The font that is displayed on your screen, which may approximate a printer font so that documents look approximately the same on the screen as they do when printed

A part of the font suitcase (of Adobe Type 1 fonts), describes the shape of each character to the operating system so that the font can be viewed onscreen

A bitmap representation of a font used to display characters on the computer screen

font used for onscreen viewing; needed for output to a postscript device

A low-resolution bitmapped representation of the font used for viewing privileges on a computer monitor, not for printing to top

A raster font designed to duplicate a printer font on the screen See also raster font

The part of a postscript font that defines how to draw the font cleanly (not bitmapped) on the monitor

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

A bit-mapped version of an outline font that is used to represent the outline font on a computer screen

A bitmap representation of a font used to display characters on the screen

The bit-mapped representation of a printer font used for displaying text on a computer screen

A part of the font suitcase (of Adobe Type 1 fonts), describes the shape of each character to the operating system so that the font can be seen on a computer screen

A data file used by a computer to create an image of the font to be displayed on the monitor The screen font stores character information for style, hyphenation, and justification Without it and the companion Printer Font, the text will not draw in the desired typeface nor will it flow properly

A data file used by a computer to create an image font to be displayed on the monitor The screen font stores character information for style, hyphenation and justification