digital fonts
Computer text styles
Digital fonts are typefaces stored as computer data rather than physical metal or wood type.
They come in various formats—TrueType, OpenType, PostScript—and can be scaled to any size without losing quality.
A font file contains the shapes of letters, numbers, and symbols that software renders on screen or sends to a printer.
The designer purchased a license for several digital fonts.
- typefaceLettering style design
- sans-serifType without terminal strokes
- kerningLetter-pair spacing adjustment
- drop capEnlarged introductory letter
- OpenTypeDigital font technology standard
diacritics · foundry · descender · hinting · leading · point size · TrueType · glyph · ligature · tracking · readable · baseline · typesetting · download · spacing · bold · script · italic
- typographyletters, calligraphy, sans serif, typefaces, serif
- writing historyalphabet, cuneiform, hieroglyphics, hieroglyphs, scripts
- writing systemsalphabet, vowel, alphabets, Cyrillic alphabet, consonant
- Chinese writinghanzi, characters, character, radical, radicals
- Indic scriptsBengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil
digital fontshandwriting
Manual letter formation
hand lettering · calligraphy · cursive writing · penmanship · script writing
digital fontsmetal type
Cast printing characters
movable type · Linotype · carved letters · printing blocks · phototypesetting