ALSO CALLED: TrueType DEFINITION: A font is a set of printable or displayable textcharacters in a specific style and size. The type design for a set of fonts is the typeface and variations of this design form the typeface family. Thus, Helvetica is a typeface family, Helvetica italic is
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FONT SOFTWARE DEFINITION (continued): … a typeface, and Helvetica italic 10-point is a font. In practice, font and typeface are often used without much precision, sometimes interchangably.
An outline font is a software typeface that can generate a scalable range of font sizes. A bitmap font is a digital represention of a font that is already fixed in size or a limited set of sizes. The two most popular outline font software programs on today's computers are TrueType and Adobe's Type 1. TrueType … Font Software definition sponsored by WhatIs.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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