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Unlike monospaced fonts, a halfwidth character occupies half the width of a fullwidth character, hence the name. Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms is also the name of a Unicode block U+FF00–FFEF, provided so that older encodings containing both halfwidth and fullwidth characters can have lossless translation to and from Unicode.
Range U+FF61–FF9F encodes halfwidth forms of katakana and related punctuation in a transposition of A1 to DF in the JIS X 0201 encoding – see half-width kana. The range U+FFA0–FFDC encodes halfwidth forms of compatibility jamo characters for Hangul , in a transposition of their 1974 standard layout.
The font shown in the example is stressed; this means that strokes have varying widths. In this example, the stroke at the top of the "g" is thinner at the top and bottom than on the sides – a vertical stress. Fonts without any variation in the stroke width are known as monoline fonts.
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.
Alphabet: Uppercase: U+0041 A 65 0101 Latin Capital letter A: 0034 U+0042 B 66 0102 Latin Capital letter B: 0035 U+0043 C 67 0103 Latin Capital letter C: 0036 U+0044 D 68 0104 Latin Capital letter D: 0037 U+0045 E 69 0105 Latin Capital letter E: 0038 U+0046 F 70 0106 Latin Capital letter F: 0039 U+0047 G 71 0107 Latin Capital letter G: 0040 U+ ...
A font when bought new would often be sold as (for example in a Roman alphabet) 12pt 14A 34a, meaning that it would be a size 12-point font containing 14 uppercase "A"s, and 34 lowercase "a". The rest of the characters would be provided in quantities appropriate for the distribution of letters in that language.
The width of the hot-lead Monotype type is expressed in units of a set. The widest letter in the alphabet, usually the capital "W", was measured in quarter-pica points, a unit being 1 ⁄ 18 part of this width. The unit width is calculated as follows for a 12-set example. 1 pica = 1 ⁄ 6 inch; 1 pica point = 1 ⁄ 12 × 1 ⁄ 6 inch = 0.013889 ...
In computer character encodings, there is a normal general-purpose space (Unicode character U+0020) whose width will vary according to the design of the typeface. Typical values range from 1/5 em to 1/3 em (in digital typography an em is equal to the nominal size of the font, so for a 10-point font the space will probably be between 2 and 3.3 ...