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Vinony

font

noun

  1. particular size, weight and style of a typeface
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /fɒnt/ / /fɑnt/

name

Etymology: * As a southern French and Catalan surname, from font (“spring, well”). * As an English surname, variant of Fant.

  1. A surname

noun

Etymology: Apparently from fount, with influence from the senses above (under etymology 1).

  1. 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”

    “As I am not drawing here on the font of imagination to refresh that of fact and experience, I do not suggest that the Tarot set the example of expressing Secret Doctrine in pictures and that it was followed by Hermetic writers; but it is noticeable that it is perhaps the earliest example of this art.”

verb

Etymology: From Middle French fonte (“act or process of founding or melting; act of producing items from molten metal; cast iron; set of type”) (modern French fonte), either: * from fondre (“to melt, melt down; to smelt”), from Old French fondre, from Latin fundere, the present active infinitive of fundō (“to pour out; to make by smelting, found”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”); or * from Late Latin *fundita, a noun use of funditus, a perfect passive participle form of Latin fundō (see above; the classical Latin form is fūsus).

  1. To overlay (text) on the picture.

    “When figures or quotes are thought helpful to understanding a spot, they're "fonted" over the cover picture.”

    “[…] character generator instead of an easel card to create letters on camera or telephone numbers that can run across the TV screen. The process is called fonting.”