Definition of "font" in English

noun

1. (Christianity) A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.

   • She dipped her fingers in the font and crossed herself.

2. A receptacle for lamp oil in a lamp.

noun

1. (typography) A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters.

2. (originally computing, typography, informal) A typeface.

3. (computing, typography, metonymic) A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer.

   • They bought a license for the Gulliver font and installed that font on several machines.

4. (informal) The design of any text.

   • I like the font of this logo.

verb

1. (transitive, television, informal) To overlay (text) on the picture.

noun

1. (figuratively) A source, wellspring, fount.

   • 1824 — George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan, canto V A gaudy taste; for they are little skill'd in The arts of which these lands were once the font