Meaning

9 senses
  1. A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.

    She dipped her fingers in the font and crossed herself.

    Weihwasserbecken, Taufbecken

    купе́льkupélʹ

  2. A receptacle for lamp oil in a lamp.

    Ölreservoir

  3. A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters.

    In metal typesetting, a set of type sorts in one size.

    a specific size and style of type within a type family

  4. In phototypesetting, a set of patterns forming glyphs of any size, or the film they are stored on.

  5. In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.

    Schriftart, Schrift

    шрифтšrift, фонтfont

    шрифтšryft, черенки́čerenký

  6. (informal)A typeface.

  7. (metonymically)A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer.

    They bought a license for the Gulliver font and installed that font on several machines.

    Font, Zeichensatz, Schriftart

    шрифтšrift, фонтfont

  8. (informal)The design of any text.

    I like the font of this logo.

  9. (figuratively)A source, wellspring, fount.

    1824 — George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan, canto V A gaudy taste; for they are little skill'd in The arts of which these lands were once the font

    Quelle

Examples

44 sentences
  1. Why do you use this font?

    Чому ти користуєшся цим шрифтом?

    ruПочему ты пользуешься этим шрифтом?

    deWarum verwendest du diese Schriftart?

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  2. I like this font.

    Мені подобається цей шрифт.

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  3. I can't read this size font.

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  4. How do you make the font bigger?

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  5. This size font is hard to read.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
typesetting: a grouping of consistently-designed glyphs:
Русский
By meaning 2
a receptacle in church for holy water:
typesetting: a grouping of consistently-designed glyphs:
Deutsch
By meaning 5
a receptacle in church for holy water:
a receptacle for oil in a lamp:
typesetting: a grouping of consistently-designed glyphs:
computer file used to draw glyphs:
source:

Origin

From Old English font, an early borrowing from Latin fōns, fontis (“fountain”). From Midd

From Old English font, an early borrowing from Latin fōns, fontis (“fountain”).

From Middle French fonte (“act or process of founding or melting; act of producing items from molten metal; cast iron; set of type”) (modern French fonte), either:

Apparently from fount, with influence from the senses above (under etymology 1).

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