=Terminology= The following terms are helpful to distinguish when discussing fonts:General Source: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/fonts.html * **Font**: What most users will think every definition on this page refers to. In traditional typography, a font is a particular size, weight and style of a typeface. Each font was a matched set of metal type, one piece (called a "sort") for each glyph, and a typeface comprised a range of fonts that shared an overall design. In modern usage, with the advent of digital typography, "font" is frequently synonymous with "typeface", although the two terms do not necessarily mean the same thing. * **Typeface** aka **Font Family**: A set of one or more fonts each composed of glyphs that share common design features. Each font of a typeface has a specific weight, style, condensation, width, slant, italicization, ornamentation, and designer. * **Generic Font Family**: The broader class of families that a particular font family falls into, such as: serif, sans-serif, cursive, symbol, monospace, and fantasy. * **Font Style**: The 'font-style' property selects between regular (aka "roman" or "upright"), italic/oblique faces within a font family. Oblique styles indicate slanted styles generated from the normal style, where as italic styles are individually designed. Cyrious Online requires the regular style be present for any custom font uploaded. * **Font Format**: This refers to the of the internal file structure for recording how the font displays each character. The following font types are supported: TrueType Fonts (TTF), TrueType Collections (TTC), and coming soon, OpenType Fonts (OTF). * **Font Variant**: Other alternative font display options (e.g. Small Caps) are referred to as Font Variants. Font Variants are not supported in Cyrious Online. * **Font Weight**: The weight of the font, ranging from 100 - 900. Other valid values include normal (400), bold (700), bolder (increases inherited value), lighter (decreases inherited value), and inherit. Only normal and bold font weights are supported in Cyrious Online.
Example: The "Arial Black" font can be treated as a different font family, or as a member of the Arial font family with a bold font weight. In Cyrious Online, Arial Black is only supported as a unique font family and is not directly associated with the Arial font family.
* **Font Size** or **Text Size**: The size of a font letter. The font size or text size is the overall size (generally height) of a font shown on a screen or printed on a page. A font is typically measured in a point (pt) size, which is the vertical measurement of the lettering. There are approximately 72 (72.272) points in one inch or 2.54 cm. Cyrious Online uses points for its measurements. * **Embeddable Font**. The licensing of a font may or may not permit the actual font to be embedded in a document (usually a PDF). If the font is embeddable, the actual font file is included in the document so any system viewing the font can properly render it. If a font is not embeddable, only the name of the font is included in the PDF and the font must be present on the computer being used to view the document for proper rendering. =References= Created : {$creationdate} Revision : {$revisiondate} Links
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