What does FONT mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. font, fount, typeface, face, casenoun

    a specific size and style of type within a type family

  2. baptismal font, baptistry, baptistery, fontnoun

    bowl for baptismal water

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Fontnoun

    A stone vessel in which the water for holy baptism is contained in the church.

    Etymology: fons, Latin; fonte, French.

    The presenting of infants at the holy font is by their godfathers. Richard Hooker, b. ii. s. 7.

    I have no name, no title;
    No, not that name was given me at the font. William Shakespeare, R. II.

ChatGPT

  1. font

    A font is a specific size, weight, and style of a typeface used in various forms of textual communication such as typing or printing. It refers to the overall design of alphanumeric characters (letters, numbers, punctuation marks) and can also include special characters. The term is often used interchangeably with 'typeface', though they technically have different meanings. Fonts are utilized in various digital and printed media to present written content in a visually effective and readable manner. Each font has unique characteristics, including variations in thickness, height, spacing, and other design elements.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Fontnoun

    a complete assortment of printing type of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing with that variety of types; a fount

  2. Fontnoun

    a fountain; a spring; a source

  3. Fontnoun

    a basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing

  4. Etymology: [F. fonte, fr. fondre to melt or cast. See Found to cast, and cf. Fount a font.]

Wikidata

  1. Font

    Font is a former municipality in the district of Broye, in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. The municipality of Font merged on 1 January 2012 into the municipality of Estavayer-le-Lac.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Font

    font, n. the vessels used in churches as the repository of the baptismal water, usually a basin or cup hollowed out of a solid block of marble, &c.—adj. Font′al, pertaining to a font or origin.—ns. Font′let, a little font; Font′-stone, a baptismal font of stone. [L. font-em, fons, a fountain.]

  2. Font

    font, Fount, fownt, n. a complete assortment of types of one sort, with all that is necessary for printing in that kind of letter. [Fr. fontefondre—L. fundĕre, to cast.]

Editors Contribution

  1. font

    A type of electronic or digital writing format.

    Digital documents have various different types of font which are very accessible.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 13, 2020  

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. FONT

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Font is ranked #14070 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Font surname appeared 2,138 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Font.

    62.1% or 1,329 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    33.4% or 715 total occurrences were White.
    2.4% or 53 total occurrences were Black.
    1% or 22 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.6% or 14 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.2% or 5 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of FONT in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of FONT in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of FONT in a Sentence

  1. Aaron Bell:

    When I was first asked to create a font that retained the spirit and personality of the German Industrial Standard( DIN) and was more readable for body text, I wasn't sure it was possible.

  2. Aeschylus:

    When Character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. inspirational quotes

  3. Dieter Uchtdorf:

    If we interact with people with the sole expectation that they soon will don a white jumpsuit and ask for directions to the nearest baptismal font, were doing it wrong, some who come and see will, perhaps, never join the church; some will at a later time. That is their choice. But that doesnt change our love for them.

  4. Werley Nortreus:

    Les gagnants ne font qu'aider les autres à gagner, et les perdants ne font que faire tomber les autres.

  5. James Poniewozik:

    It was sleeker, fresher and redesigned, there were tweaks here and there - look, even a new font! But it still does essentially the same thing.

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