The term Font in typography means, “the different varieties of letters that
were elaborated in a smelting workshop by melting and casting a type (letter),
then to be later employed on the printing press”. Martinez de Sousa
indicates that what is currently translated as Font literally means, “melting”.
Its most current meaning is, “a grouping of letters and symbols with a
particular name, based on a particular design which allows the writing of a
text”. In our modern world, dominated by computers and digital writing, the
word font refers to, “the same characters
with a complete body (grouping) of characters that allows us to write texts
with that particular character”.
In current terms, we call Font each of the digital archives that
are installed in programs of our operating systems and that can display
particular character designs as we type with a keyboard. The most popular archives
being, Tru Type (.ttf) and OpenType (.otf), which can to be used on
any platform (Macintosh, Windows or Linux).
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