Meaning & use
font
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a particular style and size of printed or digital text characters.
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The designer chose a clean sans-serif font for the website's headings.
Changing the font size made the document easier to read on a phone.
A note on using this word
Strictly, 'font' refers to one specific size and weight of a typeface, though in everyday use people often say 'font' to mean the whole typeface family.
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2. noun
a basin, especially in a church, that holds water for baptism.
The baby was christened over the marble font at the front of the chapel.
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