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Typeface

A typeface consists of a series of fonts and a full range of characters, such as, numbers, letters, marks and punctuations.

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typeface
Convention; Conferences

Name of type design; e.g., Helvetica, Schoolbook, Times Roman, etc.

typeface
Printing & publishing; Publishing

Any design of type, including a full range of characters, as letters, numbers, and marks of punctuation, in all sizes. The general style or appearance of type: as large, broad, or ...

typeface
; Typography

The letters, numbers, and symbols that make up a design of type. A typeface is often part of a type family of coordinated designs. The individual typefaces are named after the ...

typeface
Printing & publishing; Typography

A typeface consists of a series of fonts and a full range of characters, such as, numbers, letters, marks and punctuations.

typeface
Software; Translation & localization; Internationalization (I18N)

Name given to a particular style of text. In contrast, a font is an implementation of a typeface.

typeface
Software; Globalization software service

All characters of a single type family or style, weight class, width class, and posture, regardless of size. An example is Helvetica bold condensed italic, in any point size. See ...

Type 1
Software; Typography

The original international type standard for scalable type, invented by Adobe Systems. Type 1 is one of the most commonly available digital type formats and is often used by ...

what you see is what you get (WYSIWYG)
Software; Typography

Macintosh, Windows, and some UNIX environments provide a WYSIWYG screen display. What you see on the screen is what you will get on printed output, as accurately as the screen can ...

OpenType
Software; Typography

The OpenType™ format is a superset of the earlier TrueType and Adobe® PostScript® Type 1 font formats. As jointly defined by Microsoft and Adobe Systems, it is technically an ...

TrueType
Software; Typography

A scalable type technology which, along with OpenType, is built into both Windows and Mac OS.

typeface family
; Typography

Also known as family. The collection of faces that were designed together and intended to be used together. For example, the Garamond font family consists of roman and italic ...

typographic color
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The apparent blackness of a block of text. Color is a function of the relative thickness of the strokes that make up the characters in a font, as well as the width, point size, ...

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