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Avoid using boldface (or other font gimmicks) in the expansions of acronyms, as in United Nations (see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Abbreviations § Acronyms for guidelines on acronym style). The same applies to over-explaining portmanteau terms; avoid clauses like Texarkana is named for Tex as and Arkan s a s .
In metal typesetting, a font (American English) or fount (Commonwealth English) is a particular size, weight and style of a typeface, defined as the set of fonts that share an overall design. For instance, the typeface Bauer Bodoni (shown in the figure) includes fonts " Roman " (or "regular"), " bold " and " italic "; each of these exists in a ...
A font is a particular set of glyphs (character shapes), differentiated from other fonts in the same family by additional properties such as stroke weight, slant, relative width, etc. The CSS term font face is matched with "font"; it is decided by a combination of the font family and the additional properties.
This includes the four traditional styles of font (regular, italic, bold, bold italic), and also: CMU Serif upright italic, an upright italic style similar to cursive upright handwriting; CMU Serif bold non-extended, a bold weight duplexed to have the same width as the regular style; CMU Serif roman and bold slanted, two oblique styles
By contrast, a bold font weight makes letters of a text thicker than the surrounding text. [2] Bold strongly stands out from regular text, and is often used to highlight keywords important to the text's content. For example, printed dictionaries often use boldface for their keywords, and the names of entries can conventionally be marked in bold ...
[8] [9] Sol Hess designed a bold design in the same style. [10] Badr is an Arabic font from Linotype by Osman Husseini which uses Cochin for its Latin alphabet. [11] Cochin had a display open-face companion, with an empty space in the middle of the letter, named Moreau-le-jeune. [12] This was sold as "Caslon Open Face" in the United States. [13]
Docklands Light Railway used a bold weight of this typeface in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The poetry publisher Tall Lighthouse also uses Rockwell in all of its books, as well as on its website. [10] American fast food chain Arby's uses Rockwell font in its advertising, most notably in its slogan, “We Have The Meats”.
The Unicode standard does not specify or create any font (), a collection of graphical shapes called glyphs, itself.Rather, it defines the abstract characters as a specific number (known as a code point) and also defines the required changes of shape depending on the context the glyph is used in (e.g., combining characters, precomposed characters and letter-diacritic combinations).