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webfont

noun

Etymology

From Web + font.

  1. derived from fundō
  2. derived from *fundita✻
  3. derived from *ǵʰewd-✻ — “to pour”
  4. derived from fundere
  5. derived from fondre
  6. derived from fonte — “act or process of founding or melting; act of producing items from molten metal; cast iron; set of type”
  7. compounded as webfont — “Web + font”

Definitions

  1. A font designed for or used on the Internet.

    • The second approach is to use fonts that were designed for computer use like TTF and include them in the game as a webfont.
    • A webfont is a font that's not pre-installed on the user's computer when browsing a website, but instead the webfont reference is coded in the backend and is downloaded when the user opens the website in a browser.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for webfont. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA