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The word font (US) or fount (traditional UK; in any case pronounced / f ɒ n t /) derives from Middle French fonte, meaning "cast iron". [2] The term refers to the process of casting metal type at a type foundry. The spelling font is mainly used in the United States, whereas fount was historically used in most Commonwealth countries.
Typeface Family Spacing Weights/Styles Target script Included from Can be installed on Example image Aharoni [6]: Sans Serif: Proportional: Bold: Hebrew: XP, Vista
This list of monospaced typefaces details standard monospaced fonts used in classical typesetting and printing. Samples of Monospaced typefaces Typeface name
Wingdings is a TrueType dingbat font included in all versions of Microsoft Windows from version 3.1 [4] until Windows Vista/Server 2008, and also in a number of application packages of that era.
Kurinto Font Folio (open source , pan-Unicode, 21 typefaces, 506 fonts; v2.196 (July 26, 2020) has coverage of most of Unicode v12.1 plus many auxiliary scripts including the UCSUR) LastResort (fallback font covering all 17 Unicode planes, included with Mac OS 8.5 and up) Lucida Grande (Unicode font included with macOS; includes 1,266 glyphs)*
A bitmap color font for the Amiga OS. Digital bitmap fonts (and the final rendering of vector fonts) may use monochrome or shades of gray.The latter is anti-aliased.When displaying a text, typically an operating system properly represents the "shades of gray" as intermediate colors between the color of the font and that of the background.
The Character Generator Protocol (CHARGEN) service is an Internet protocol intended for testing, debugging, and measurement purposes. The user receives a stream of bytes . Although the specific format of the output is not prescribed by RFC 864 , the recommended pattern (and a de facto standard ) is shifted lines of 72 ASCII characters repeating.
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).