- Font trivia anyone?
- Posted by Ozman Trad on February 11th, 2004
"Rob Leuschke" <gideoninc@charter.net> wrote in message news:BC4EDE5E.C5A0%gideoninc@charter.net...
Technically not correct. A 'font' is a character set of a given typeface. Character set you say? For instance, the alpha numerics and the floating accents for Franklin Gothic, would be a character set, or 'font'.
- Posted by Gary Dickson on February 11th, 2004
Not only was each size concidered a particular font but further "Italic" 24
pt Times Roman was (is?) technically its own particular font.
On 2/10/04 7:15 PM, in article BC4EDE5E.C5A0%gideoninc@charter.net, "Rob
Leuschke" <gideoninc@charter.net> wrote:
- Posted by Ozman Trad on February 11th, 2004
Whoops, accidently hit send before I pasted this def.:
font (n) 1: A set of glyphs (images) representing the
characters from some particular character set in a
particular size and typeface.
- Posted by Rob Leuschke on February 11th, 2004
Here is a little trivia that I'm sure some of you know... but for those new
to the world of fonts it may be a tidbit.
Did you know that the word we use, "font" is actually a misnomer? The word
we should be using is TYPEFACE.
A font is not the style of a typeface. It goes back to the old days of
letterpress when particular styles of TYPE were made from metal molds kept
in large cases. The Magiscule letters were kept in the typsetter's UPPER
cases and the miniscule letters were kept in the LOWER cases. Hense the
terms Uppercase and lowercase.
Now here is the trivia answer. A font is actually a particular point size of
a typeface. For example, 24 pt Times Roman.
Just a bit of trivia... if anyone else has fun trivia facts about fonts, I
would love to hear them.
Rob Leuschke
Beautiful letters, make beautiful words, see for yourself at:
http://www.typesetit.com
