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Roman font en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of) Alternative letter-case form of roman font.
   alt of roman font
   • The largest group is the Roman fonts. They are used to type languages that use the Roman (Latin) alphabet (A, B, C, and so on). 2013, Angie Taylor, Design Essentials for the Motion Media Artist:
   • When producing Roman fonts, about 256 characters should be designed. Whereas designing Korean fonts, around 2,500 widely used characters should be designed among the total 11,172 characters. 2017, James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park, Shu-Ching Chen, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, Advanced Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering, page 289:
   • 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:

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