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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: font n 1: a specific size and style of type within a type family [syn: {fount}, {typeface}, {face}] 2: bowl for baptismal water [syn: {baptismal font}, {baptistry}, {baptistery}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: fontA set of {images} representing the {characters} from some particular {character set} in a particular size and {typeface}. The image of each character may be encoded either as a {bitmap} (in a {bitmap font}) or by a higher-level description in terms of lines and areas (an {outline font}). There are several different computer representations for fonts, the most widely known are {Adobe Systems, Inc.}'s {PostScript} font definitions and {Apple}'s {TrueType}. Most {window systems} support displaying different fonts on the screen and printing them [Other types of font?] (1998-05-30)
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