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In metal typesetting, a font is a particular size, weight, and style of a typeface. Each font is a matched set of type, with a piece (a "sort") for each glyph. A typeface consists of various fonts that share an overall design. In the 21st century, with the advent of computer fonts, the terms "font" and "typeface" are often used interchangeably ...
Typography, i.e. the use of fonts, on Wikipedia can often be a source of heated debates. This is because Wikipedia has never set an explicit font in its default skin. This was true for Monobook, and still holds for Vector. The base font for these skins are simply defined as font-family: sans-serif.
FontFont is the library of original typefaces issued by FontShop International. Founded by Erik Spiekermann and Neville Brody in 1990, as a foundry where type was made “for designers, by designers”. Acquired together with font distributor FontShop by Monotype in 2014.
It was published by FontShop in its FontFont library of typefaces. FF DIN has an unadorned appearance with high x-height and a large series of weights. It became very popular: as of September 2017, it remained the best-selling typeface on MyFonts.
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Computer font. Comparison between printed (top) and digital (bottom) versions of Perpetua. A computer font is implemented as a digital data file containing a set of graphically related glyphs. A computer font is designed and created using a font editor. A computer font specifically designed for the computer screen, and not for printing, is a ...
Font editor. License. Mix of GNU General Public License v3 and BSD license. Website. fontforge .org. FontForge is a FOSS font editor which supports many common font formats. Developed primarily by George Williams until 2012, FontForge is free software and is distributed under a mix of the GNU General Public License Version 3 and the 3-clause ...
