type fount

type fount
字体,字种

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  • fount — fount, font These are the traditional British and American spellings respectively of the term meaning ‘a set of printing type of one size or face’. Font is now also used in BrE, and is rapidly ousting fount. Both words are only remotely connected …   Modern English usage

  • Fount — can refer to:* A spring or fountain (mostly literary or poetic), and thus, metaphorically, a source of something beneficial (as in fount of knowledge, wisdom etc.) * The traditional English spelling of the once Americanized (1828) font (i.e.… …   Wikipedia

  • type — I n. metal blocks used in printing 1) to set type (to set type by hand) 2) boldface, boldfaced; elite; italic; pica; regular; Roman type 3) a font/fount of type 4) in type (to set a book in type) sort, category 5) a blood type 6) of a certain… …   Combinatory dictionary

  • type — Synonyms and related words: Platonic form, Platonic idea, adumbration, aesthetic form, affinity, alien, allegory, alphabetize, analyze, animus, antetype, antitype, aptitude, archetype, area, arrange, art form, ascender, assort, augury, auspice,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • type family — noun a complete set of type suitable for printing text • Hypernyms: ↑type • Member Meronyms: ↑font, ↑fount, ↑typeface, ↑face, ↑case * * * noun …   Useful english dictionary

  • type — noun 1) six types of coffee Syn: kind, sort, variety, class, category, set, genre, species, order, breed 2) italic type Syn: print, typeface …   Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

  • fount — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French funte, founte, from Latin font , fons Date: 15th century fountain, source II. noun Etymology: French fonte, from Middle French more at font Date: circa 1683 British a type fo …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • fount — 1. n. poet. a spring or fountain; a source. Etymology: back form. f. FOUNTAIN after MOUNT(2) 2. n. (also font) Printing a set of type of one face or size. Etymology: F fonte f. fondre FOUND(3) …   Useful english dictionary

  • special sort — /spɛʃəl ˈsɔt/ (say speshuhl sawt) noun a printing character not normally found in a type fount, as an accented letter, etc.; a peculiar; an arbitrary …  

  • Font — Type; Schrift; Schriftart * * * Fọnt 〈m. 6; Drucktech.; EDV〉 Zeichensatz, besonders die verschiedenen innerhalb eines Textverarbeitungsprogramms zur Verfügung stehenden Schriftsätze [<engl. font „(Textverarbeitungs )Zeichensatz“ <engl.… …   Universal-Lexikon

  • font — fount, font These are the traditional British and American spellings respectively of the term meaning ‘a set of printing type of one size or face’. Font is now also used in BrE, and is rapidly ousting fount. Both words are only remotely connected …   Modern English usage

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