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font

fɑnt
WordNet
One-sided printed sheet of paper, with different fonts. Dated: Sunday, November 17.
One-sided printed sheet of paper, with different fonts. Dated: Sunday, November 17.
  1. (n) font
    bowl for baptismal water
  2. (n) font
    a specific size and style of type within a type family
Illustrations
The baptismal font on the left comes from the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk in Breda. On the right a mantelpiece from Utrecht.
The baptismal font on the left comes from the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk in Breda. On the right a mantelpiece from Utrecht.
A vertical section of the Lateran Baptistery, revealing the interior with baptismal font. Caption in Latin. The print is part of an album.
A vertical section of the Lateran Baptistery, revealing the interior with baptismal font. Caption in Latin. The print is part of an album.
Philip III holds his son Philip for baptism over a baptismal font. Margaret of Austria is standing on his right, the priest on his left.
Philip III holds his son Philip for baptism over a baptismal font. Margaret of Austria is standing on his right, the priest on his left.
Brass baptismal font in the baptistery of the Grote Kerk in Breda.
Brass baptismal font in the baptistery of the Grote Kerk in Breda.
Dark room with some fonts. The tiled floor has a sloping diamond pattern.
Dark room with some fonts. The tiled floor has a sloping diamond pattern.
The priest keeps the child in the baptismal font. Bystanders are watching.
The priest keeps the child in the baptismal font. Bystanders are watching.
Calligraphic sheet of paper, with different fonts, and with various images: middle landscape with some ships on the left and cattle on the right, below left (Dutch) lion and right (looted?) House with figure, bottom middle bust of the king, left Dutch coat of arms and right laurel wreath with seven coats of arms. Inscription: 'God's best blessing descend' on King Willem! (............). Signed; lo, ro: JW Taute.
Calligraphic sheet of paper, with different fonts, and with various images: middle landscape with some ships on the left and cattle on the right, below left (Dutch) lion and right (looted?) House with figure, bottom middle bust of the king, left Dutch coat of arms and right laurel wreath with seven coats of arms. Inscription: 'God's best blessing descend' on King Willem! (............). Signed; lo, ro: JW Taute.
Catharina is standing in front of a baptismal font in a church. Christ is dressed as a poor man, without clothes, he is cold. Catherine shares her mantle with him, just like Saint Martin. Part of a series about Catherine of Siena, consisting of a title print, a portrait and 32 numbered scenes from her life.
Catharina is standing in front of a baptismal font in a church. Christ is dressed as a poor man, without clothes, he is cold. Catherine shares her mantle with him, just like Saint Martin. Part of a series about Catherine of Siena, consisting of a title print, a portrait and 32 numbered scenes from her life.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Font
    A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing. "That name was given me at the font ."
  2. Font
    (Print) 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.
  3. Font
    A fountain; a spring; a source. "Bathing forever in the font of bliss."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) font
    A repository for the water used in baptism; now, specifically, a basin, usually of marble or other fine stone, permanently fixed within a church, to contain the water for baptism by sprinkling or immersion: distinctively called a baptismal font. Ritually, its proper position is near the entrance of the church, but it is very commonly placed near the chancel. In the early ages of the church the font was placed in a separate building or chapel called the baptistery; and this usage has maintained itself in some regions, notably in Italy. By the eleventh century it had become customary to locate the font within the main church edifice. The earliest medieval fonts were of considerable size, as it was then the practice to administer the rite by immersion. They were usually of massive stone or marble, and even the oldest surviving examples are, as a rule, richly sculptured. See baptistery.
  2. (n) font
    A fount; fountain; source.
  3. (n) font
    A casting; the act or process of casting; founding.
  4. (n) font
    A complete assortment and just apportionment of all the characters of a particular face and size of printing-type, as required for ordinary printed work. The ordinary font of 500 pounds of Roman and Italic type for book- or newspaper-work in the English language is divided in about the following proportions: small or lower-case letters, 265 pounds; capital letters, 37 pounds; small-capital letters, 17 pounds; figures, 14 pounds; points and references, 20 pounds; braces, dashes, fractions, etc., 12 pounds; spaces and quadrats, 99 pounds; Italic letters, 36 pounds. For other languages than English different apportionments are necessary.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Font
    font 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
  2. (n) Font
    a complete assortment of types of one sort, with all that is necessary for printing in that kind of letter.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary AS. font, fant, fr. L. fons, fontis, spring, fountain; cf. OF. font, funt, F. fonts, fonts baptismaux, pl. See Fount

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Fr. fontefondre—L. fundĕre, to cast.

Usage in the news

Other user benefits include built-in font inspection, smart sets, and smart classification of fonts . mactech.com

Kimberly Geswein Fonts Janda Fabulous. pcworld.com

Note that the font won't appear in your applications until you close and re-open it. pcworld.com

Visual Art Poker in the Font : Playing Cards Decked Out in Helvetica. nashvillescene.com

Barack Obama and Jason Kottke Get New Web Fonts . slate.com

Whitney—named in honor of New York's Whitney Museum, for which it was developed—is one of 33 fonts offered for sale on H&FJ's website. slate.com

Sarcasm marks and fonts would be useful, but they could also destroy the art of a good, witty sarcastic barb by making it too obvious. ashingtonpost.com

Move over Comic Sans – there's a ridiculous new font in town which makes that much-maligned typeface look postitively Times New Romanian. kfmx.com

Sarcasm Font For People Who Can't Recognize It on Their Own. bli.com

) If not, choose from the fonts that fit the criteria—Courier New and Times New Roman are common choices—and stick with the standard 12 point size. ritermag.com

Give Word a More Readable Default Font . pcmag.com

This font 's elegant styling and open use license is a fit for personal and commercial projects. pcworld.com

The fonts are compatible across both operating systems. pcmag.com

A Clean Gothic Font With a Dangerous Edge. pcworld.com

You may not really notice it, but the fonts used on the signs you read have a huge role in how you receive information. governing.com

Usage in scientific papers

Paragraphs of the text containing technical issues and therefore being more difficult for understanding, are typed with a smaller font.
String Theory or Field Theory?

LaTeX font definitions• For nearest-neighbour RWRE on the integers, the assumption (1.1) is equivalent to assuming that the transition probabilities themselves are i.i.d. .
Critical RWRE on trees and tree-indexed random walks

We use uppercase letters for random variables, lowercase letters for individual values, and boldface fonts for sequences.
Capacity and Random-Coding Exponents for Channel Coding with Side Information

Most relevant for the present work is the paper by Font`es and Mathieu who consider independent random conductances of networks on Zd .
An interlacing technique for spectra of random walks and its application to finite percolation clusters

We usually follow Bourbaki’s convention: if G is a Lie group, then its Lie algebra is designated g, except in characteristic p > 0 where the modern tradition does not favor Gothic font.
Structures of G(2) type and nonintegrable distributions in characteristic p

Usage in literature

It does seem as though the font of my jollity had quite dried up. "Ruth Fielding Down East" by Alice B. Emerson

Peut-etre les productions de la nature font elles des progres vers la perfection. "Evolution, Old & New" by Samuel Butler

Thus our name Harvey, no longer usual as a font-name, is Fr. "The Romance of Names" by Ernest Weekley

The font is a good one, of Norman date. "Exeter" by Sidney Heath

The Font was nearly under the gallery. "Old Times at Otterbourne" by Charlotte M. Yonge

Father Pedro Font came with the expedition. "Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California" by Caroline C. Leighton

After the death of Canon Burrows, in 1892, the new font, just within the west door, was erected by subscription, as a memorial to him. "Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester" by G. H. Palmer

The font formed a compact quadrilateral wound around the edges with string. "The Adventures of Bobby Orde" by Stewart Edward White

The font which stands in the vestibule at the west end is a most excellent piece of work. "The Strand District" by Sir Walter Besant

At all events he'd refresh his soul at that tranquil font. "Black Oxen" by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Usage in poetry
Then I could weep but happy tears,
They soothe not now my grief,
The burning anguish of my heart
Has quenched that font's relief.
And when a baby boy, to crown and bliss
Their wedded love, to their embrace was given,
Our gracious Queen, as sponsor at the font,
Gave the dear babe, in holy rite, to Heaven.
Here, close beside this sacred font of gold,
My humble prayer, oh, father, I will lay,
With all its weight of misery untold;
And wait impatient that which thou wilt say
REVENITA.
``I was beside the font when you were brought
Into the granite—pillared House of Prayer;
Smiled at your loneliness when first you sought
To sing away your load of childish care.
When to the font, this morn, my lips I pressed,
A fairy's gift my fingers trembled o'er;
A sweeter prayer ne'er smile of angel blessed,
Nor gemmed a tiar that the priesthood wore.
When to the font, this morn, my lips I pressed,
A fairy’s gift my fingers trembled o’er;
A sweeter prayer ne’er smile of angel blessed,
Nor gemmed a tiar that the priesthood wore.