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Reference
Glossary
FontA font is the overall design for a set of characters. It describes the
size, weight, and spacing of a character and shouldn't be confused with a
typeface, which is a more general term.
Courier is a typeface; Courier 24-point bold is a font. Computers display
fonts in either a bitmap or a vector
format. In a bitmapped font, each character is represented by an
arrangement of dots. In a vector font system, the shape or outline of each
character is defined geometrically. Since a vector font is scalable
according to the defined outline, a vector system can make many
differently sized fonts from one defined set of characters. Currently, the
most widely used vector font systems are PostScript and TrueType.
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