Roman font

See also: roman font

English

Noun

Roman font (plural Roman fonts)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of roman font.
    • 1897, Old Faces of Roman and Medieval Types, De Vinne Press, page 13:
      The Roman fonts of Aldus were eclipsed by his Italic and Greek, but he cut several fine alphabets.
    • 1992, Daniel Carter, Writing Localizable Software for the Macintosh, page 30:
      Although 1 byte is all that is needed for Roman fonts, 2 bytes are needed for other character sets.
    • 2013, Angie Taylor, Design Essentials for the Motion Media Artist:
      The largest group is the Roman fonts. They are used to type languages that use the Roman (Latin) alphabet (A, B, C, and so on).
    • 2017, James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park, Shu-Ching Chen, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, Advanced Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering, page 289:
      When producing Roman fonts, about 256 characters should be designed. Whereas designing Korean fonts, around 2,500 widely used characters should be designed among the total 11,172 characters.
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