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Font

Font Meaning & Definition
Font Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Font?

[n] bowl for baptismal water
[n] a specific size and style of type within a type family

Synonyms | Synonyms for Font: baptismal font | baptistery | baptistry | face | fount | typeface

Related Terms | Find terms related to Font: affusion | ascender | aspergation | aspersion | back | baptism | baptismal gown | baptismal regeneration | baptistery | baptizement | bastard type | beard | belly | bevel | black letter | body | bonanza | cap | capital | case | chalice | chrismal | chrismatory | christening | ciborium | cornucopia | counter | cruet | descender | em | en | face | fat-faced type | feet | flush | fount | fountain | fountainhead | geyser | gold mine | groove | gush | headspring | headstream | headwater | holy-water font | immersion | infusion | italic | jet | letter | ligature | lode | logotype | lower case | mainspring | majuscule | mine | minuscule | monstrance | nick | ostensorium | pi | pica | point | print | pyx | quarry | reliquary | resource | riverhead | roman | rush | sans serif | script | shank | shoulder | small cap | small capital | source | source of supply | spew | spit | spout | spouter | spray | spring | springhead | sprinkling | spritz | spurt | spurtle | squirt | stamp | staple | stem | total immersion | type | type body | type class | type lice | typecase | typeface | typefounders | typefoundry | upper case | vein | well | wellhead | wellspring

See Also | basin | black letter | bold | bold face | boldface | cartridge font | constant-width font | fixed-width font | font cartridge | Gothic | Helvetica | italic | monospaced font | proportional font | raster font | sans serif | screen font | type | type family | typewriter font

Font In Webster's Dictionary

\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\, 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.

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