Definition of Font. Meaning of Font. Synonyms of Font

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Definition of Font

Font
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.
Font
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. Bathing forever in the font of bliss. --Young. 2. A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing. That name was given me at the font. --Shak.

Meaning of Font from wikipedia

- typesetting, a font (American English) or fount (Commonwealth English) is a particular size, weight and style of a typeface, defined as the set of fonts that share...
- A typeface (or font family) is a design of letters, numbers and other symbols, to be used in printing or for electronic display. Most typefaces include...
- Look up font in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Font may refer to: Typeface, a design of letters, numbers and other symbols, to be used in printing or...
- Pedro Font (Pere Font in Catalan, his native language) (1737–1781) was a Spanish Franciscan missionary and diarist. Font was born in 1737 in Girona, Catalonia...
- computer font is implemented as a digital data file containing a set of graphically related glyphs. A computer font is designed and created using a font editor...
- A font catalog or font catalogue, also called a type specimen book, is a collection of specimen of typefaces offering sample use of the fonts for the...
- Google Fonts (formerly known as Google Web Fonts) is a computer font and web font service owned by Google. This includes free and open source font families...
- A monospaced font, also called a fixed-pitch, fixed-width, or non-proportional font, is a font whose letters and characters each occupy the same amount...
- Kochi (東風フォント) was a font development project to build free replacements of proprietary fonts such as MS Gothic or MS Mincho, developed by Yasuyuki Furukawa...
- A baptismal font is an ecclesiastical architectural element, which serves as a receptacle for baptismal water used for baptism, as a part of Christian...