Lexmark M410 User's Guide - Page 244

Style refers to other typeface modifications, such as tilt or character width. Italic and oblique are styles where the characters are tilted. Narrow, condensed and extended are three common styles that modify the character widths. Some fonts combine several weight and style modifications; for example, Helvetica Narrow Bold Italic. A group of several weight and style variations of a single typeface is called a typeface family. Most typeface families have four variations: regular, italic, bold, and bold italic. Some families have more variations, as the following illustration for the Helvetica typeface family shows: Pitch and Point Size The size of a font is specified as either a pitch or point size, depending on whether the font is fixed space or proportional. In fixed space fonts, each character has the same width. Pitch is used to specify the size of fixed space fonts. It is a measure of the number of characters that will print in one horizontal inch of type. For example, all 10-pitch fonts print 10 characters per inch (cpi) and all 12-pitch fonts print 12 cpi: Courier 10 Pitch 1234567890 Courier-Bold 10 Pitch 1234567890 Courier Courier-Bold 12 Pitch 12 Pitch 123456789012 123456789012 1 inch 232 Appendix A: Understanding Fonts