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If a font is not specified, or if none of the fonts are installed, readers will only see a numbered box in place of the PUA character. Tagging a (hexa)decimal code with the template {{ PUA }} will enable future editors to review the page, and to Unicodify the character if it is included in future expansions of Unicode.
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 ...
Diagram of a cast metal sort.a face, b body or shank, c point size, 1 shoulder, 2 nick, 3 groove, 4 foot.. In professional typography, [a] the term typeface is not interchangeable with the word font (originally "fount" in British English, and pronounced "font"), because the term font has historically been defined as a given alphabet and its associated characters in a single size.
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 ...
As a result, changing the variation used, such as using bold or italics, does not change the layout . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The idea of a uniwidth typeface dates back to the days of hot metal typesetting , when the duplex matrices on Linotype machines allowed for two font styles to be used, but required them to be of the same width. [ 3 ]
This font therefore included four separate "master designs" of each character: light compressed, light extended, bold compressed, and bold extended. Any weight or width font in between these endpoints could be produced by interpolating between the character outlines of these master designs. [11] [12] The addition of italics requires another ...
The font was changed to the sans-serif Roboto in 2018.) [19] It is available in four weights: thin, light, regular and bold. However, no oblique versions were released for it. In November 2019, the typeface was updated and added 5 new weights: Extra-Light, Medium, Semi-Bold, Extra-Bold and Black, and a variable font axis ranging from 100 to 900.
Fira was released in 2013 initially under the Apache License, and later reissued under the SIL Open Font License. In its first 2013 release, Fira Sans was available in four weights with corresponding italics: light, regular, medium, and bold. In May 2014, the number of weights was increased to 16. [7] In 2015, Mozilla added a condensed style. [8]