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Keywords:
Typeface,
Helvetica,
Arial,
Italic,
Punctuation
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.
That which we would otherwise refer to as typeface.
output: A digitized set of characters in a single typeface design. A digital font can be any size unlike old-fashioned typography where each size is considered a font. Plain (or Roman), Bold, Italic, and Bold/Italic are the traditional styles within a font family. Fonts are either bitmapped fonts or scalable. Scalable fonts come in two varieties, PostScript and TrueType.
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 New Roman Bold Italic is one font, and Times New Roman Bold is another font. Times New Roman is a single typeface.
An alphabet of letters of one style or type. SEE TYPE FACE.
Traditionally, a complete set of characters for one typeface at one particular type size. Now used more loosely as a synonym for "typeface".
A specific design for a set of letters and characters. (WP, Gr. 6)
A collection of bitmaps or outlines which supply the graphic rendering of every character in a character set.
A complete set of characters in a typeface at a particular size. Often used synonymously with typeface.
A complete set of characters for one typeface, such as Helvetica, including uppercase and lowercase characters, numbers, and punctuation marks.
A particular style of lettering and numbering. Typical examples include: arial, courier, times. Font sizes are measured in points and can be bold or italic. Font attributes set in an HTML document are place between tags that look like these: font and /font.
A specific typeface, such as "Times Roman" or "Verdana."
A file which stores the character shapes and equations so they can be printed on the screen and over the network. These are located in the system suitcase until system 7.0.1 and in the files folder in system 7.1.
A particular size and style of typeface that contains definitions of character sets, marker sets, and pattern sets.
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 single typeface, typically consisting of all standard alphabetical characters-uppercase and lowercase letters, numerals, punctuation and special characters.
A collection of characters of a single typeface and encoding system that computers can use with a specified device (such as a monitor or printer).
Index Definition: Font Style Description: Used to change color, style, and size of fonts. Has been deprecated in favour of style sheets.
the particular typeface used to display your text eg. Courier, Times New Roman, Helvetica.
A set of attributes for text characters.
A font is a character set in a certain style. The default proportional font is Times Roman at 8 points. The default fixed font is generally Courier New at 8 points. The user may set the font style and size for the base font.
Typographic style such as Times Roman or Helvetica.
a set of character shapes in a single style and size.
In hot metal composition, a font was all the characters that made up a complete typeface at a particular point size. In electronic publishing, the term "font" is used to mean a complete typeface design in any or all point sizes.
A typographic term meaning a complete set of all letters, numbers and characters of the same typeface
In typography, a complete assortment of all the necessary characters for a particular size and style (face) of type required for ordinary typesetting.
a single uniform style of alpha-numeric characters, also known as a typeface. Font styles used in film/video production are consistent with those used in the print industry and most are available in normal, bold, italic, and extended character sets.
(1) For bitmapped fonts, a complete set of glyphs in one typeface, size, and style. (2) For outline fonts, a complete set of glyphs in one typeface and style. A font also has a table that associates those glyphs with their equivalent character codes. (3) A style object property. It is the reference to the font to use in drawing the text of a shape. (4) A collection of glyphs that usually have some element of design consistency such as the shapes of the counters, the design of the stem, stroke thickness, or the use of serifs.
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.
Complete assortment of letters, figures, punctuation marks and symbols in a particular type.
All the letters, numbers, and punctuation points in one size in a type style.
The total characters in a complete thypeface, including caps, lowercase, figures, and punctuation.
A particular style and size of type including all of the associated characters.
(n) The size and style of text characters.
A collection of characters which constitutes a character set. These characters can be either text or graphics images.
A description of how to display a set of characters. The description includes the shape of the characters, spacing between characters, effects (for example, bold, italics, and underline) and the size of the characters.
A set of letters, numbers, punctuation marks, and symbols of a given design and size. Fonts requested by the computer must be in printer's setup in order for printing to happen.
A complete assortment of type of a given design, style and size.
the size and general appearance of text written in a window.
The style of type used. AT&T uses the Gill Sans, Trade Gothic and Minion families of fonts.
A specific set of shapes for a character set. Old English is one example of a font (it's more complicated than that, but I'm not going into it here).
A single family of like characters in a type style.
a complete assortment of letters, numbers, punctuation marks etc., of a given style and size.
The design of a set of characters (i.e., Times Roman).
The place in the church where babies are baptised.
A single uniform style of alphanumeric characters, also referred to as a type face.
A font is the overall design for a set of written characters. It describes the size, weight (for example, bold) and spacing of a character. The choice of font is very important and often different fonts are used in printed publications and websites. The RNID website uses a Verdana 14 point normal font, but if you find this too small you can resize it by changing the settings in your browser.
A font is a complete set of characters in a particular style and typically consists of a full letter set, number set and all other special characters you get by pressing the shift, control or option keys. Examples of fonts include "Arial", "Courier New" etc.
all type characters in a specific style at one size, including all essential letters, numerals and punctuation.
Text style, such as Times New Roman, Arial, Helvetica, etc.
a set of characters with the same style such as Courier or Arial.
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 selected type style used to display text. Fonts will display differently under different circumstances so it is important to use fonts that the majority of users will have on their systems and which will display cleanly. Fonts such as "Arial" and "Helvetica" are often recommended to display web-based text.
The typeset used in page design.
a complete set of all the characters of the same design and style. The characters in a font can be figures or symbols as well as alphanumeric characters. See also type style.
A set of graphic characters that have a characteristic design, or a font designer"s concept of how the graphic characters should appear. The design specifies the attributes of its graphic characters, including shape, graphic pattern, style, size, weight, and increment. For example: 9-point Helvetica uses size and style.
Also known as a typestyle. A lettering style chosen for your wording. Many typestyles are available for you to choose from. Different brands may have the same styles under different names.
this is the term for the type of text style used on a webpage. A larger font or smaller font would also mean to use smaller or larger versions of a given font.
CSS allows excellent control over the way your text is displayed. Edittable attibutes include colour, family, size, weight and style.
The name used to describe a family of characters with distinctive shapes. Examples: Palatino and Avant Garde are "proportional fonts," whereas Courier and Monaco are "non-proportional" and, when printed, will faithfully reproduce the look of the text you see on-line.
The generic name for the many different styles of typefaces.
A name given to a collection of text characters at a specific size, weight, and style. Arial and Times New Roman are examples of font names.
strictly a complete set of type for printing; nowadays mostly it refers to a particular design for the whole set of characters available through a computer keyboard.
A specific design (size and style) for a set of letters and characters.
a specific size and style of type within a type family
a collection of attributes associated with printed or displayed text
a collection of character images called "glyphs" and mappings fro |
