Terms for fonts

• Font
  The English font (fount) in the metal type era refers to "a design in accordance with the uniform production of a font size of a set of movable." In the digital age, it is used to refer to digital fonts on the computer, including kerning and other information.
  Ordinary Chinese translation "font" refers to the common design elements, including bold and Italian italic, such as the set of words, seemingly and English "typeface" similar.
  
• Roman traditional or liner body
  A font with a claw-like or line "liner" (serif) attached to the end of the stroke. The ancient Roman period formed the style of this capital letter, so it was called the Roman traditional. Liner is said to originate from the ancient Roman inscriptions drafting when the use of flat-head pen writing traces of the left. The Roman traditional are divided into two categories.
  1. Vintage Roman Body (Oldstyle Roman)
     From the Renaissance to the Baroque, a Roman body with a flat pencil writing mark
  2. Modern Roman Body (modern Roman)
     A Roman body that was popular in the 18th century, with a straight line liner without a flat-head pen mark.
• Italian Italic (italic)
  Refers to a handwriting used in Italy. Originally not affiliated to the Roman Traditional, is a set of independent fonts, now generally refers to the body of the Roman traditional collocation of a set of italic font.
• Sans serif body (Sanserif typeface)
  Sans in French means "No", Sanserif is "sans serif". The style is simple, easy to identify under harsh conditions, and is used for newspaper dictionary titles, manuals, outdoor road signs and so on.

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Terms for fonts