Some Basic Facts about Fonts

This section summarises some of the basic facts you should know about fonts.


What Is a Font?

Attributes of Fonts

Typeface


Stroke Weight


Style


Point Size


Pitch (cpi)


Character Width (Fixed and PS)


Orientation


Symbol Set


Fonts and Scalable Fonts

Bitmapped Fonts


Scalable Fonts


Standard Scalable Fonts (PCL)


OCR Sets Fonts (PCL)


Symbol Sets (For Scalable Typefaces Only)


Typeface Samples

Standard Scalable Fonts (PCL)


Bitmapped Fonts (PCL)


OCR Code Scalable Fonts (PCL)


Symbol Sets

ASCII


DeskTop


ISO 8859-1 Latin 1


ISO 8859-10 Latin 6


ISO 8859-2 Latin 2


ISO 8859-9 Latin 5


ISO French


ISO German


ISO Italian


ISO Norwegian


ISO Spanish


ISO Swedish


ISO United Kingdom


Legal


Math-8


MC Text


Microsoft Publishing


PC-1004


PC-775


PC-8


PC-8 D/N


PC-850


PC-852


PC-Turkish


Pi Font


PS Math


PS Text


Roman-8


Symbol


Ventura International


Ventura Math


Ventura US


Windows 3.0 Latin 1


Windows 3.1 Latin 1


Windows 3.1 Latin 2


Windows 3.1 Latin 5


Windows Baltic


Wingdings


Unicode


OCR-A


OCR-B


Dingbats


ISO Latin 9


PC-8 Greek


PC-858


PC-860


PC-865


Roman 9