character’s design. As a result, two different sentences that contain the same number of characters will occupy the same width if printed using a monospaced font, but will usually have different widths if a proportionally- spaced font is used.
An example sentence in Courier.
Identical number of characters.
An example sentence in Bookman.
Identical number of characters.
Pitch
The pitch of a monospaced font is the number of charac- ters printed per inch.
Weight
Font weight is the thickness of the lines which make up the font’s characters. The standard weight is known as medium. Bold fonts, with thicker lines, are commonly used. Bold text is often used for emphasis or for head- ings. Light stroke weight fonts have lines that are nar- rower than the standard weight. Some examples of different stroke weights are shown below.
Light
Medium
Bold
Black
Bitmap fonts
Each character in a bitmap font is defined as a matrix of dots that the printer prints on the page. As a result, bit- map fonts are available in particular point sizes only.
For example, the printer’s
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