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noun

a receptacle, usually of stone, as in a baptistery or church, containing the water used in baptism.

a receptacle for holy water; stoup.

a productive source: The book is a font of useful tips for travelers.

the reservoir for oil in a lamp.

Archaic. a fountain.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English; Old English font, fant < Latin font- (stem of fōns) baptismal font, spring, fountain

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a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.

an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

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When you tap the icon, a list of four font sizes appears.

Adjusting font size, set contrast, and lock orientation.

From the droplets in a baptismal font to the scattering of ashes on a holy river, water blesses our lives.

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When you tap the icon, a list of four font sizes appears.

Adjusting font size, set contrast, and lock orientation.

From the droplets in a baptismal font to the scattering of ashes on a holy river, water blesses our lives.

Clear and convincing evidence that telomerase will provide the font of youth.

Professional font creators pooh poohed this system, although a lot of them used it themselves.

To increase and decrease the font size, pinch and zoom with two fingers on an article screen.

They weigh up to a ton or more and have dagger-type tusks in font of their face.

Size, font and even line spacing can now be tweaked.

How a new font finds an audience by balancing the handmade and the digital.

Because they haven't yet been, or seen someone being, fired for having a brief bounced because it was in the wrong size font.

Amblyopic patients often have trouble discerning normal-size font in a clutter of other letters.

She then designed the keys one by one using a custom font and a stock photo of a vintage typewriter key.

We started with a graphic approach, experimenting with every font in our arsenal.

Just blow up the font by5 and spacing5 and increase the margin size by a little bit.

From the droplets in a baptismal font to the scattering.

Quick pointer to this awesome eye-chart, made with a different font from a famous sci-fi/genre show show or movie for each letter.

They must decide where to put commas, how to frame a piece of evidence, or what font will provide them with a particular ethos.

Archimedes was a font of both mathematical insight and smart quotes as well as the hero of some really great stories.

Altering the tempo, pitch and feel of a beat has become almost as easy as changing the font in this sentence.

Wonderful specs for reading in full daylight and changing font size.

The font sizes, leading and column width, all encourage reading rather than skimming.

My sense is that this location number changes when one changes the font size.

It really helps to focus you on the content-instead of the font or the margins.

If you're placing text directly over images, use a color or font style that stands out.

Technology can be a font of endlessly creative solutions.

The only major difference is iBooks has a tool to change font point and type.

There is absolutely no need to use font elements anymore".

Oft-cited new requirements include changing signs in all-caps to mixed-case, increasing font sizes and improving reflectivity.

Fortunately, by pulling up the control panel triggered by a special font key, it's easy to turn off the pivot.

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noun Printing.

a complete assortment of type of one style and size.

Also, British, fount.

Origin:
1570–80; < Middle French fonte < Vulgar Latin *funditus a pouring, molding, casting, verbal noun from Latin fundere to pour. See found³

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font¹ (fɒnt)

—n
1.	a. a large bowl for baptismal water, usually mounted on a pedestal
	b. a receptacle for holy water
2.	the reservoir for oil in an oil lamp
3.	archaic, poetic or a fountain or well

[Old English, from Church Latin fons, from Latin: fountain]

'fontal¹

—*adj*

font² (fɒnt)

—n
	printing Also called: fount a complete set of type of one style and size

[C16: from Old French fonte a founding, casting, from Vulgar Latin funditus (unattested) a casting, from Latin fundere to melt; see found³]

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Word Origin & History

font

"basin," O.E. font, from L. fons (gen. fontis) "fountain" (see fountain), especially in M.L. fons baptismalis "baptismal font."

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font

"typeface," 1683, from M.Fr. fonte, fem. pp. of fondre "melt" (see found (2)). So called because all the letters were cast at the same time.

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font definition

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A set of glyphs (images) representing the characters from some particular character set in a particular size and typeface. The image of each character may be encoded either as a bitmap (in a bitmap font) or by a higher-level description in terms of lines and areas (an outline font).
There are several different computer representations for fonts, the most widely known are Adobe Systems, Inc.'s PostScript font definitions and Apple's TrueType. Window systems can display different fonts on the screen and print them.
[Other types of font?]
(2001-04-27)

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