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Typeface - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2367 words) |
 | A font, from Middle French fonte, meaning "(something that has been) melt(ed)" and referring to letters of a typeface produced by casting molten metal at a type foundry, consists of a set of glyphs (images) representing the characters from a particular character set in a particular typeface. |
| The mid-1970s saw all of the major typeface technologies and all their fonts in use: from the original letterpress process of Gutenberg to mechanical metal typesetters, phototypositors, computer-controlled phototypesetters, and the earliest digital typesetters, (hulking machines with tiny processors and CRT outputs). |
| Digital fonts may encode the image of each character either as a bitmap (in a bitmap font) or by a higher-level description in terms of lines and curves enclosing a space (an outline font, also called a "vector font"). |
| Fonts (11257 words) |
| This is the descriptor for the vertical stroke angle of the font. |
| This is the descriptor for the height of lowercase glyphs of the font. |
| This is the descriptor for the mathematical baseline of a font. |
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