font

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fɒnt/
• Rhymes: -ɒnt
• (US) IPA^(key): /fɑnt/
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

From Old English font, an early borrowing from Latin fons, fontis (“fountain”).

font (plural fonts)

1. A receptacle in a church for holy water - especially one used in baptism
2. A receptacle for oil in a lamp.
3. (figuratively) spring, source, fountain
   • 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:

     The Bible lays special stress on the fear of God as the font of wisdom.

Borrowed from Middle French fonte, feminine past participle of verb fondre (“to melt”).

• fount (UK)

font (plural fonts)

1. (typography) A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters.
   1. In metal typesetting, a set of type sorts in one size.
   2. In phototypesetting, a set of patterns forming glyphs of any size, or the film they are stored on.
   3. In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.
2. (computing) A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer.

• “font” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Bringhurst, Robert (2002). The Elements of Typographic Style, version 2.5, pp 291–2. Vancouver, Hartley & Marks. →ISBN.

Apparently from fount, with influence from the senses above (under etymology 1).

font (plural fonts)

1. (figuratively) A source, wellspring, fount.
   • 1824 — George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan, canto V

     A gaudy taste; for they are little skill'd in
     The arts of which these lands were once the font

   • 1910 — Arthur Edward Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, part II

     As I am not drawing here on the font of imagination to refresh that of fact and experience, I do not suggest that the Tarot set the example of expressing Secret Doctrine in pictures and that it was followed by Hermetic writers; but it is noticeable that it is perhaps the earliest example of this art.

   • 1915 — Woodrow Wilson, Third State of the Union Address

     I am interested to fix your attention on this prospect now because unless you take it within your view and permit the full significance of it to command your thought I cannot find the right light in which to set forth the particular matter that lies at the very font of my whole thought as I address you to-day.

From Old Occitan font, from Latin fons, fontem, of Proto-Indo-European origin.

font m (plural fonts)

1. fountain
2. source (of water)
3. source (origin)
4. (journalism) source

(fountain): fontana

• codi font
• codi font obert

• fontaner
• fontaneria
• fontinyol

• “font” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• IPA^(key): /fɔ̃/
• Rhymes: -ɔ̃

font

1. third-person plural present indicative of faire

• fonz

From Latin fundus.

font m (plural fonts)

1. bottom
2. background
3. landed property, farm
4. fund

• profont

• IPA^(key): [ˈfont]
• Hyphenation: font

From German Pfund, from Latin pondo.[1]

font (plural fontok)

1. pound (weight)
2. pound (currency unit)

   Synonym: font sterling

Borrowed from English font, from Middle French fonte, feminine past participle of fondre (“to melt”), from Latin fundō (“I melt”).[1]

font (plural fontok)

1. (typography) digital font (set of glyphs of unified design contained in a computer file)

From Latin fons, via Old Norse fontr (sense 1), and French fonte, via English font (sense 2)

font m (definite singular fonten, indefinite plural fonter, definite plural fontene)

1. a baptismal font
2. (typography) font, or fount (UK)

• “font” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin fons, via Old Norse fontr (sense 1), and French fonte, via English font (sense 2)

font m (definite singular fonten, indefinite plural fontar, definite plural fontane)

1. a baptismal font
2. (typography) font, or fount (UK)

• “font” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

font c

1. (typography) a font

• The synonym teckensnitt is considered more correct.

• teckensnitt