Fonts, Terminology, Font type – Rena DA615 User Manual

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7. Fonts

Terminology

A font is a collection of characters and symbols with the same font type and
spacing, the same size (height), line thickness and character position

Font type

A font type is a set of characters and symbols of a specific design.

Cour

Helv

TmsRm

Serif or sans serif
font type

Serifs are small cross-lines above or below characters (known as
"feet" in the Antiqua fonts). Cour is a Serif font type. Font types
without serifs are known as Sans Serif. Helv is a Sans Serif font
type. The diagram below shows the difference between a Serif and
a Sans Serif font type.

Normal/italics

The characters can be printed out either in normal mode or in
italics - with a constant slope.

This line is printed with normal characters.

This line is printed in italics.

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