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PROPORTIONAL FONT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any font whose different characters have different widths
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("proportional font" is a kind of...):
case; face; font; fount; typeface (a specific size and style of type within a type family)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "proportional font"):
Bodoni; Bodoni font; modern; modern font (a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes)
old style; old style font (a typeface (based on an 18th century design) distinguished by irregularity and slanted ascender serifs and little contrast between light and heavy strokes)
roman; roman letters; roman print; roman type (a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions)
Antonym:
fixed-width font (a typeface is which each character is given the same width (as by a typewriter))