font

(fŏnt)
n.

1. A basin for holding baptismal water in a church.
2. A receptacle for holy water; a stoup.
3. The oil reservoir in an oil-burning lamp.
4. An abundant source; a fount: She was a font of wisdom and good sense.

[Middle English, from Old English, from Late Latin fōns, font-, from Latin, fountain.]

fontal font'al (fŏn'tl) adj.

font² (fŏnt)
n. Printing
A complete set of type of one size and face.

[French fonte, casting, from Old French (from Vulgar Latin *fundita , from Late Latin, feminine of *funditus , past participle of Latin fundere, to pour forth; see fondant) or from Old French fondre, to melt (from Latin fundere).]

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A set of type characters of a particular typeface design and size. Each typeface, such as Times Roman, Helvetica and Arial, is typically made available in four variations: normal weight, bold, italic and bold italic. Thus, for bitmapped fonts, which are fully generated ahead of time, four fonts would be required for each point size of the typeface. For scalable fonts, which are generated in any point size on the fly, only four fonts would be required for each typeface.

Font Storage

Fonts mostly reside in the computer's hard disk as "soft fonts." However, with PostScript fonts, a basic set is built into the printer along with the PostScript rasterizing engine. In the early days, plug-in cartridges were common (see font cartridge). See typeface, bitmapped font, scalable font, TrueType and PostScript fonts.

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Typographer's name for the complete selection of type of one size and face. A font will include all 26 letters in the alphabet (including uppercase and lowercase as well as small caps), the numbers from 0 through 9, punctuation marks, and some commonly used symbols, such as the ampersand (&) and dollar sign ($).

The set of characters in one size and style of a typeface. For example, Garamond is a typeface, while 14-point Garamond Italic is a font.

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A basin, usually of stone, which holds the water for baptism.

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For a list of words related to font, see:

• Decorations, Ornaments, and Symbolic Objects - font: receptacle for liquids, esp. holy water
• Television Programming and Institutions - font: on-screen graphic or super; typeface used for on-screen graphics
• Printing and Typefaces - font: full assortment of letters and symbols in one size and family of type
• Sacred Texts and Objects - font: vessel for holy water, often of stone

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Dansk (Danish)
1.
n. - døbefont, vievandskar, kilde

2.
n. - skrifttype

idioms:

• font cartridge    skrifttypekassette

Nederlands (Dutch)
lettertype, bron, vont, doopvont, vloeistofhouder, oliereservoir van lamp

Français (French)
1.
n. - (Relig) fonts baptismaux

2.
n. - (Imprim) fonte, (Comput) police de caractère

idioms:

• font cartridge    (Imprim) cartouche de fontes

Deutsch (German)
1.
n. - Taufstein

2.
n. - Schrift

idioms:

• font cartridge    Schriftpatrone

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (θρησκ.) κολυμβήθρα

idioms:

• font cartridge    (Η/Υ) κασέτα γραμματοσειρών για εκτυπωτή

Italiano (Italian)
carattere, fonte battesimale

Português (Portuguese)
n. - fonte (f), pia (f) batismal

Русский (Russian)
шрифт, купель, источник

Español (Spanish)
1.
n. - pila bautismal

2.
n. - fuente, letra de molde

idioms:

• font cartridge    cartucho de tinta para imprimir letras adicionales

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - dopfunt, lampas oljehus, font (data)

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
1. 字体, 字形

idioms:

• font cartridge    打印机字形卡

2. 洗礼盘

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
1.
n. - 字體, 字形

idioms:

• font cartridge    印表機字形卡

2.
n. - 洗禮盤

한국어 (Korean)
1.
n. - 세례반, 성수반

2.
n. - 인쇄(폰트)

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 洗礼盤, フォント

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) طقم من الحروف المطبعيه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮כלי למי טבילה, קובעת, אגן, שמן במנורה‬
n. - ‮גופן, אותיות דפוס מסוג אחד‬

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