The term font, a doublet of the word fondue, derives from Middle French font, meaning '(something that has been) melt(ed)', referring to type produced by casting molten metal 'Bulmer', the typeface, may include the fonts 'Bulmer roman Different sizes of a single style-separate fonts in metal type-are now generated from a single computer font, because vector shapes can be scaled freely. Latin, Cyrillic and Greek, the main such properties are the stroke width, called weight, the style or angle and the character width.īeginning in the 1980s, with the introduction of computer fonts, a broader definition for the term 'font' evolved.
Several characteristics which may distinguish fonts, though they would also depend on the script(s) that the typeface supports. Font is used synonymously with the term typeface and has it origin since the beginning of 1980's.ĭifferent sizes of a single style-separate fonts in metal type-are now generated from a single computer font, because vector shapes can be scaled freely.
