Font

Noun

 * 1) A receptacle in a church for holy water - especially one used in baptism
 * 2) A receptacle for oil in a lamp.
 * 3)  spring, source, fountain
 * 4) * 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.

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) In metal typesetting, a set of type sorts in one size.
 * 3) In phototypesetting, a set of patterns forming glyphs of any size, or the film they are stored on.
 * 4) 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.
 * 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. A font file.

Derived terms

 * font family
 * multilingual font
 * Unicode font
 * bitmap font
 * screen font


 * outline font
 * printer font
 * font suitcase
 * roman font

Noun

 * 1)  A source, wellspring, fount.
 * 2) * 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
 * 1) * 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.
 * 1) * 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.

Thesaurus
affusion, ascender, aspergation, aspersion, back, baptism, baptismal gown, baptismal regeneration, baptistery, baptizement, bastard type, beard, belly, bevel, black letter, body, bonanza, cap, capital, case, chalice, chrismal, chrismatory, christening, ciborium, cornucopia, counter, cruet, descender, em, en, face, fat-faced type, feet, flush, fount, fountain, fountainhead, geyser, gold mine, groove, gush, headspring, headstream, headwater, holy-water font, immersion, infusion, italic, jet, letter, ligature, lode, logotype, lower case, mainspring, majuscule, mine, minuscule, monstrance, nick, ostensorium, pi, pica, point, print, pyx, quarry, reliquary, resource, riverhead, roman, rush, sans serif, script, shank, shoulder, small cap, small capital, source, source of supply, spew, spit, spout, spouter, spray, spring, springhead, sprinkling, spritz, spurt, spurtle, squirt, stamp, staple, stem, total immersion, type, type body, type class, type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, upper case, vein, well, wellhead, wellspring

Etymology 1
From font:, from  fons:.

Etymology 2
From fonte:, feminine past participle of verb fondre:.

Etymology 3
Apparently from fount:, with influence from the senses above (under etymology 1).

Alternative forms

 * fount

Noun

 * French:
 * Greek: κολυμπήθρα
 * Macedonian: крстилница,


 * Polish: chrzcielnica
 * Russian: купель
 * Swedish: funt, dopfunt


 * Polish:


 * Swedish: reservoar


 * : fontur

Noun

 * Arabic:, بنط
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 字形
 * Czech:
 * Danish: skrifttype
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: Schriftart
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: גופן (gofan)


 * Icelandic: leturgerð
 * Japanese:, フォント
 * Lithuanian: šriftas
 * Macedonian: (1, 2),  фонт (3)
 * Polish:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swedish: teckensnitt, font, typsnitt, stilsort
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: phông, phông chữ


 * Arabic:, بنط
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 字形
 * French:
 * German: Schriftart
 * Greek:


 * Japanese:, フォント
 * Macedonian: фонт
 * Polish:
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish: teckensnitt, font, typsnitt, stilsort

Noun

 * Macedonian:


 * Polish:

Verb form

 * 1) Third-person plural indicative present of faire.

Noun

 * 1) pound
 * 2) pound (currency unit)

Noun

 * 1)  a font

Synonyms

 * teckensnitt