Dell 3115 Color Laser User Guide - Page 331

Weight refers to the thickness of the lines t the characters. Thicker lines result in darker characters. Some wor nly used to describe the weight of a typeface are bold, medium, lig ck, and heavy. Style refers to other typeface modifications, lt or character width. Italic and oblique are styles where the cha tilted. Narrow, condensed, and extended are three common styles dify the character widths. e fonts combine several weight and style modifications; for example ica Narrow Bold Oblique. A group of several weight and style variati single typeface is called a typeface fam. Most typeface families have four variations: regular, ital ue), bold, and bold italic (bold oblique). Some families have more va as the following illustration for the Helvetica typeface family show and Point Size The size of a font is specifie ther a pitch or point size, depending on whether the font is fixed proportional. In fixed space fo haracter has the same width. Pitch is used to specify the size of fixed space fonts. It is a measure o mber of characters that will print in one horizontal inch of type. F le, all 10-pitch fonts print 10 characters per inch (cpi) and all 12- nts print 12 cpi: In propor (or typographic) fo y character can have a different width. Since proportional fonts hav ters with different widths, the font size is specified in point size, ch. Point size refers to the the characters in the font. A point defined as 1/72 inch. The characters in a font printed at 24 point twice as large as the characters in the same font printed at 12 poin T wing illustration shows samples of a font printed in different po