font

Plural: fonts

Noun

• A basin, typically stone, for holding baptismal water in a church.
• a specific size and style of type within a type family
• bowl for baptismal water
• A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.
• A receptacle for lamp oil in a lamp.
• A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters.
• In metal typesetting, a set of type sorts in one size.
• A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters.
• In phototypesetting, a set of patterns forming glyphs of any size, or the film they are stored on.
• A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters.
• In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.
• A typeface.
• A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer.
• A source, wellspring, fount.

Verb

• To overlay (text) on the picture.

Examples

• She dipped her fingers in the font and crossed herself.
• The Scrabble board, with its array of letters, felt like a FONT of endless possibilities.
• They bought a license for the Gulliver font and installed that font on several machines.

Synonyms

baptismal font, baptistery, baptistry, case, face, fount, typeface, stoup

Related Words

aspergillum, holy-water sprinkle, FONTAL