Some Basic Facts About Fonts

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Appendix

Typeface

Typeface refers to the design of the characters and symbols. The following figure
shows an example of some typefaces.

Typeface

Courier ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Times ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Helvetica ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Stroke Weight

Stroke weight refers to the thickness of the print. There are light, medium, and bold
stroke weights. The printer function has medium and bold fonts available. The figure
below shows an example of medium and bold printing.

Stroke weight

Style

Style refers to the shape of the characters. The printer function can print in two
styles:
upright and italic. With some fonts like Letter Gothic, the term “Oblique” is used in
the same manner as italics.

Style

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