font
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English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
From Old English font, from Latin fons (“fountain”).
Noun [edit]
font (plural fonts)
- A receptacle in a church for holy water - especially one used in baptism
- A receptacle for oil in a lamp.
- (figuratively) spring, source, fountain
- 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
- The Bible lays special stress on the fear of God as the font of wisdom.
- 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
Translations [edit]
a receptacle in church for holy water
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Etymology 2 [edit]
From Middle French fonte, feminine past participle of verb fondre (“to melt”).
Alternative forms [edit]
- fount (UK)
Noun [edit]
- (typography) 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.
- In phototypesetting, a set of patterns forming glyphs of any size, or the film they are stored on.
- 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.
- (computing) 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 font file.
Derived terms [edit]
Derived terms
Translations [edit]
typesetting: a grouping of consistently-designed glyphs
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a computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs
References [edit]
- “font” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Bringhurst, Robert (2002). The Elements of Typographic Style, version 2.5, pp 291–2. Vancouver, Hartley & Marks. ISBN 0-88179-133-4.
Etymology 3 [edit]
Apparently from fount, with influence from the senses above (under etymology 1).
Noun [edit]
font (plural fonts)
- (figuratively) A source, wellspring, fount.
- 1824 — George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan, canto V
- A gaudy taste; for they are little skill'd in
The arts of which these lands were once the font
- A gaudy taste; for they are little skill'd in
- 1910 — Arthur Edward Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, part II
- As I am not drawing here on the font of imagination to refresh that of fact and experience, I do not suggest that the Tarot set the example of expressing Secret Doctrine in pictures and that it was followed by Hermetic writers; but it is noticeable that it is perhaps the earliest example of this art.
- 1915 — Woodrow Wilson, Third State of the Union Address
- I am interested to fix your attention on this prospect now because unless you take it within your view and permit the full significance of it to command your thought I cannot find the right light in which to set forth the particular matter that lies at the very font of my whole thought as I address you to-day.
- 1824 — George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan, canto V
Translations [edit]
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Etymology [edit]
From Latin fons, fontis.
Noun [edit]
font m (plural fonts)
Synonyms [edit]
(fountain): fontana
Derived terms [edit]
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French [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Verb [edit]
font
- third-person plural present indicative of faire
Hungarian [edit]
Noun [edit]
font (plural fontok)
Swedish [edit]
Noun [edit]
font c
- (typography) a font
Declension [edit]
Declension of font
Usage notes [edit]
- The synonym teckensnitt is considered more correct.
