An item of churchfurniture or architecture, used as a container for holy water, and used in blessings and baptisms. A large font is typically found in a baptistery, an area in the church set aside for baptisms. A smaller font set by the entrance of a Roman Catholic church for worshippers to bless themselves upon entering is sometimes called a stoup.
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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").
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