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roman font en · NOUN

Etymology

From roman + font.

Meanings

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:
   • Moreover, most roman fonts offer italic counterparts, and italics offer another degree of interest. 1993, Mac, Word & Excel Desktop Companion, page 93:
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.
   • 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:
   • CID fonts are basically the opposite of roman fonts. CID is short for Character IDentifier. CID fonts were developed for Asian markets and languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (what Adobe often refers to as CJK). 2008, Mordy Golding, Real World Adobe Illustrator CS4, page 261:
   • 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:
   • 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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