font

UK /fɒnt/ US /fɑnt/
noun 8name 2verb 1

Definitions

noun

1

A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.

She dipped her fingers in the font and crossed herself.

Blessed be God, that, at the font, /⁠ My sponsors bound me to the call / Of Christ in England to confront / The world, the flesh, the fiend and all.

2

A receptacle for lamp oil in a lamp.

noun

1

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.

2

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.

3

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.

4

A typeface.

5

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.

They bought a license for the Gulliver font and installed that font on several machines.

verb

1

To overlay (text) on the picture.

When figures or quotes are thought helpful to understanding a spot, they're "fonted" over the cover picture.

[…] character generator instead of an easel card to create letters on camera or telephone numbers that can run across the TV screen. The process is called fonting.

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