roman font

Etymology

Definitions

1. 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.
   • Moreover, most roman fonts offer italic counterparts, and italics offer another degree of interest.
2. 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.
3. 3

   A font supporting the characters of the Latin alphabet.

   • Although 1 byte is all that is needed for Roman fonts, 2 bytes are needed for other character sets.
   • 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).
   • 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).
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   1. 4

      Alternative letter-case form of roman font.

      • The Roman fonts of Aldus were eclipsed by his Italic and Greek, but he cut several fine alphabets.
      • Although 1 byte is all that is needed for Roman fonts, 2 bytes are needed for other character sets.
      • 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).

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