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==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English], from Late Latin ''font''-, ''fons'', from [[Latin]], [[fountain]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century before 12th Century]
The term font, a doublet of the word [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fondue fondue], derives from Middle French ''font'', meaning "(something that has been) melt(ed)", referring to type produced by casting molten metal at a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_foundry type foundry]. English-speaking printers have used the term fount for centuries to refer to the multi-part metal type used to assemble and print in a particular size and typeface.
==Definitions==
*1a : a receptacle for [[baptismal]] [[water]]
:b : a receptacle for [[holy]] water
:c : a receptacle for various [[liquids]]
*2: [[source]], fountain <a font of [[information]]>
==Description==
'''Font''' nowadays is frequently used synonymously with the term "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typeface typeface]", although before the advent of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_typography digital typography] and desktop publishing, "font" referred to a single size and "typeface" referred to a set of otherwise identical fonts of [[different]] sizes.
Beginning in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980's 1980s], with the introduction of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_font computer fonts], a broader [[definition]] for the term "font" evolved. Different sizes of a single style—separate fonts in metal type—are now generated from a single computer font, because [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_font vector shapes] can be scaled freely. "Bulmer", the typeface, may include the fonts "Bulmer roman", "Bulmer italic", "Bulmer bold" and "Bulmer extended", but there is no separate font for "9-point Bulmer italic" as opposed to "10-point Bulmer italic".
There are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_typefaces thousands of typefaces].[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font]
[[Category: Publishing]]
==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English], from Late Latin ''font''-, ''fons'', from [[Latin]], [[fountain]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century before 12th Century]
The term font, a doublet of the word [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fondue fondue], derives from Middle French ''font'', meaning "(something that has been) melt(ed)", referring to type produced by casting molten metal at a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_foundry type foundry]. English-speaking printers have used the term fount for centuries to refer to the multi-part metal type used to assemble and print in a particular size and typeface.
==Definitions==
*1a : a receptacle for [[baptismal]] [[water]]
:b : a receptacle for [[holy]] water
:c : a receptacle for various [[liquids]]
*2: [[source]], fountain <a font of [[information]]>
==Description==
'''Font''' nowadays is frequently used synonymously with the term "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typeface typeface]", although before the advent of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_typography digital typography] and desktop publishing, "font" referred to a single size and "typeface" referred to a set of otherwise identical fonts of [[different]] sizes.
Beginning in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980's 1980s], with the introduction of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_font computer fonts], a broader [[definition]] for the term "font" evolved. Different sizes of a single style—separate fonts in metal type—are now generated from a single computer font, because [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_font vector shapes] can be scaled freely. "Bulmer", the typeface, may include the fonts "Bulmer roman", "Bulmer italic", "Bulmer bold" and "Bulmer extended", but there is no separate font for "9-point Bulmer italic" as opposed to "10-point Bulmer italic".
There are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_typefaces thousands of typefaces].[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font]
[[Category: Publishing]]
