roman font

• Roman font

From roman + font.

roman font (plural roman fonts)

1. (chiefly computing) A font that is upright, as opposed to oblique or italic.
   • 1988, Peter P. Silvester, The UNIX^TM System Guidebook, page 201:

     It will automatically reduce the size of the subscripts identified by “sub” and will choose italic or roman fonts for the remaining characters as appropriate.

   • 1993, Mac, Word & Excel Desktop Companion, page 93:

     Moreover, most roman fonts offer italic counterparts, and italics offer another degree of interest.

2. (typography) An oldstyle serif font or typeface (sometimes capitalized "Roman").
   • 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.

3. (computing) A font supporting the characters of the Latin alphabet.
   • 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.

   • 2008, Mordy Golding, Real World Adobe Illustrator CS4, page 261:

     CID fonts are basically the opposite of roman fonts. CID is short for Character IDentifier. CID fonts were developed for Asian markets and languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (what Adobe often refers to as CJK).

   • 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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