Other forms: fonts
A font is the style and shape of the letters on a screen or page. Change the font, a sans-serif font, font size.
Strictly a typeface is the design and a font was one size and weight of it, a distinction that mattered when type was metal and does not now. The word for the stone basin in a church is a separate one, from the Latin for a fountain.
1nounfontThe style and shape of printed or displayed letters.
“The poster was hard to read because the font was so small and fancy.”
font is a lettering style.
Also accepted in games: typeface
From French fonte, a casting, from fondre, to melt — a font was a set of type cast in metal.
Latin
fons — fountain
Old English
font
English, today
font
holy water + From Old English font, an early borrowing from Latin fons (“fountain”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA