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PROPORTIONAL FONT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does proportional font mean? 

PROPORTIONAL FONT (noun)
  The noun PROPORTIONAL FONT has 1 sense:

1. any font whose different characters have different widthsplay

  Familiarity information: PROPORTIONAL FONT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PROPORTIONAL FONT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any font whose different characters have different widths

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("proportional font" is a kind of...):

case; face; font; fount; typeface (a specific size and style of type within a type family)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "proportional font"):

Bodoni; Bodoni font; modern; modern font (a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes)

old style; old style font (a typeface (based on an 18th century design) distinguished by irregularity and slanted ascender serifs and little contrast between light and heavy strokes)

roman; roman letters; roman print; roman type (a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions)

Antonym:

fixed-width font (a typeface is which each character is given the same width (as by a typewriter))


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