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roman fonts

roman fonts is the plural of roman font.

Meaning of roman font

Noun

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
  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

Noun capitalized: Roman fonts

Roman fonts

  1. (plural) plural of Roman font

Questions about roman fonts

What is roman fonts the plural of?
Roman fonts is the plural of roman font.
What part of speech is roman fonts?
Roman fonts is a noun.

Words near roman fonts in the dictionary

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

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