Some Basic Facts about Fonts

This section summarizes 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)


PS Fonts


Typeface Samples

Standard Scalable Fonts (PCL)


Bitmapped Fonts (PCL)


OCR Code Scalable Fonts (PCL)


PS Fonts Typeface Samples


Symbol Sets

Arabic-8


ASCII


DeskTop


Greek-8


Hebrew-7


Hebrew-8


ISO 8859-1 Latin 1


ISO 8859-2 Latin 2


ISO 8859-5 Latin/Cyrillic


ISO 8859-7 Latin/Greek


ISO 8859-8 Latin/Hebrew


ISO 8859-9 Latin 5


ISO 8859-10 Latin 6


ISO French


ISO German


ISO Italian


ISO Latin 9


ISO Norwegian


ISO Spanish


ISO Swedish


ISO United Kingdom


Legal


Math-8


MC Text


Microsoft Publishing


OCR-A


OCR-B


PC-1004


PC-775


PC-8


PC-8 D/N


PC-8 Greek


PC-850


PC-851


PC-852


PC-858


PC-862


PC-864


PC-866


PC-Turkish


Pi Font


PS Math


PS Text


Roman-8


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 Arabic


Windows Baltic


Windows Latin/Cyrillic


Windows Latin/Greek