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Font

A font is a set of symbols, which can be used for typesetting. In metal typesetting, each piece is called a “sort” and a each point size of a typeface makes up its own font. This is not the case for digital fonts, since they are scalable. The different fonts of a type family are usually referred to as “styles” (e.g. regular, italic, bold italic). Digital fonts are made up of characters and glyphs.
🇳🇱 Dutch: font
🇫🇷 French: fonte de caractères
🇩🇪 German: Font
🇮🇹 Italian: font (fonte)
🇵🇱 Polish: font
🇪🇸 Spanish: fuente
🇹🇷 Turkish: Font, Yazıtipi

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By Ralf Herrmann ()

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    thomas gravemaker

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    A 'letterpolis' it's called in Dutch when we refer to metal type. 

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