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roman font

roman font noun: a font that is upright, as opposed to oblique or italic.

roman font: a font that is upright, as opposed to oblique or italic
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Noun (1)

roman font (plural roman fonts)

  1. A font that is upright, as opposed to oblique or italic.
    • 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.1988, Peter P. Silvester, The UNIXᵀᴹ System Guidebook, page 201
    • Moreover, most roman fonts offer italic counterparts, and italics offer another degree of interest.1993, Mac, Word & Excel Desktop Companion, page 93
  2. An oldstyle serif font or typeface (sometimes capitalized "Roman").
    • The Roman fonts of Aldus were eclipsed by his Italic and Greek, but he cut several fine alphabets.1897, Old Faces of Roman and Medieval Types, De Vinne Press, page 13
  3. A font supporting the characters of the Latin alphabet.
    • Although 1 byte is all that is needed for Roman fonts, 2 bytes are needed for other character sets.1992, Daniel Carter, Writing Localizable Software for the Macintosh, page 30
    • 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).2008, Mordy Golding, Real World Adobe Illustrator CS4, page 261

Noun (2) capitalized: Roman font

Roman font (plural Roman fonts)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of roman font.
    • The Roman fonts of Aldus were eclipsed by his Italic and Greek, but he cut several fine alphabets.1897, Old Faces of Roman and Medieval Types, De Vinne Press, page 13
    • Although 1 byte is all that is needed for Roman fonts, 2 bytes are needed for other character sets.1992, Daniel Carter, Writing Localizable Software for the Macintosh, page 30

Forms of roman font

pluralroman fonts
alternative formRoman font
pluralRoman fonts

Origin of roman font

From roman + font.

Questions about roman font

What does roman font mean?
Roman font means a font that is upright, as opposed to oblique or italic.
What part of speech is roman font?
Roman font is a noun.
What is the plural of roman font?
The plural of roman font is roman fonts.

Words near roman font in the dictionary

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  2. Roman dodecahedron
  3. Roman Empire
  4. Roman Empires
  5. Roman fever
  6. roman font
  7. roman fonts
  8. Roman gallon
  9. Roman gallons
  10. Roman hands and Russian fingers
  11. Roman holiday

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