Font (disambiguation)
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Font may refer to:
Typography
[edit]- Typeface, a design of letters, numbers and other symbols, to be used in printing or for electronic display. Most typefaces include variations in size, weight, style, and so on. Each of these variations of the typeface is a font. Since the 1990s, many people outside the printing industry have used the word font as a synonym for typeface
- Font, a particular size, weight and style of a typeface
- Computer font, a digital file storing typeface/font data
Religion
[edit]- Holy water font, a vessel for holy water, often seen at the entrance of a church
- Baptismal font, a container for holy water used in the Christian ceremonial of baptism
People with the surname
[edit]- Héctor Font (born 1984), Spanish footballer
- Pedro Font (1737–1781), Franciscan missionary and diarist
Locations
[edit]- Font, Switzerland, a municipality of the canton of Fribourg
- Font Hill Beach, a beach on the south coast of Jamaica
- La Font de la Figuera, a municipality in Spain
- La Font de la Guatlla, a neighborhood in Barcelona, Spain
- La Font d'En Carròs, a municipality in Spain
- River Font, a river in Northumberland, England
Other
[edit]- Fountain (archaic usage, also spelled fount)
- Kerosene lamp font, the container at the base of an oil or kerosene lamp that holds the oil, also spelled fount