Font

n.	1.	(Print.) A complete assortment of printing type of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing with that variety of types; a fount.
	1.	A fountain; a spring; a source. Bathing forever in the font of bliss. - Young.
	2.	A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing. That name was given me at the font. - Shak.

Noun	1.	font - a specific size and style of type within a type family Synonyms: fount, typeface, face
	2.	font - bowl for baptismal water Synonyms: baptismal font, baptistery, baptistry

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font - A set of glyphs (images) representing the characters from some particular character set in a particular size and typeface. The image of each character may be encoded either as a bitmap (in a bitmap font) or by a higher-level description in terms of lines and areas (an outline font). There are several different computer representations for fonts, the most widely known are Adobe Systems, Inc.'s PostScript font definitions and Apple's TrueType. Window systems can display different fonts on the screen and print them.

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