In typography, a font is traditionally defined as a
quantity of sorts composing a complete character set of a
single size and style of a particular typeface. One
individual font character might be referred to as a “piece
of font” or a “piece of type”. The term
font, a doublet of
the word fondue, derives from Middle French fonte, meaning
"(something that has been) melt(ed)", referring to type
produced by casting molten metal at a 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.
A computer font (or font) is an electronic data file containing a set of glyphs, characters, or symbols such as dingbats. Although the term font first referred to a set of metal type sorts in one style and size, since the 1990s it is generally used to refer to a scalable set of digital shapes that may be printed at many different sizes.
Fonts can be monospaced (i.e.. every character is plotted a constant distance from the previous character that it is next to, while drawing) or proportional (each character has its own width). However, the particular font-handling application can affect the spacing, particularly when doing justification.
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