"Fount" redirects here. For the original
meaning, see fountain.
This article is about the traditional meaning of
"font". For the electronic data file, see Computer font. For other uses, see Font (disambiguation).
Font nowadays is frequently used synonymously with
the term "typeface", although before the advent of digital typography and desktop
publishing, "font" referred to a single size and "typeface"
referred to a set of otherwise identical fonts of different sizes.
Beginning
in the 1980s, with the introduction of computer
fonts, a broader definition for the term "font" evolved. Different
sizes of a single style separate fonts in metal type are now generated from a
single computer font, because vector
shapes can be scaled freely.
"Bulmer", the typeface, may include the fonts "Bulmer
roman", "Bulmer italic", "Bulmer bold" and
"Bulmer extended", but there is no separate font for "9-point
Bulmer italic" as opposed to "10-point Bulmer italic". source
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