# font
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /fɒnt/
* (General American) IPA: /fɑnt/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒnt

### Etymology 1

From Old English font, an early borrowing from Latin fōns, fontis (“fountain”).

#### Noun

font (plural fonts)
* (Christianity) A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.
    Synonym: stoup
    Hyponym: baptismal font
    She dipped her fingers in the font and crossed herself.
** 1791, Christopher Smart, “Moderation”, in Hymns for the Amusement of Children:Blessed be God, that, at the font, /⁠ My sponsors bound me to the call / Of Christ in England to confront / The world, the flesh, the fiend and all.
** 1913, John Bertram Peterson, “Baptismal Font”, in Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 2:In the Apostolic Age, as in Jewish times (John, iii, 23), baptism was administered without special fonts, at the seaside or in streams or pools of water (Acts, viii, 38); […]
* A receptacle for lamp oil in a lamp.

##### Derived terms

* fontal
* fontless
* fontlet
* font name

##### Translations

    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

##### See also

* aspergillum, holy-water sprinkle

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle French fonte, feminine past participle of verb fondre (“to melt”).

#### Alternative forms

* fount (UK)

#### Noun

font (plural fonts)
* (typography) A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters.
** In metal typesetting, a set of type sorts in one size.
** In phototypesetting, a set of patterns forming glyphs of any size, or the film they are stored on.
** In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.
* (originally computing, typography, informal) A typeface.
* (computing, typography, metonymically) A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer.
    They bought a license for the Gulliver font and installed that font on several machines.

##### Derived terms

* bitmap font
* clip font
* color font
* font family
* fontless
* font name
* fontography
* fontology
* font stack
* font suitcase
* multifont
* outline font
* pi font
* printer font
* roman font
* screen font
* soundfont
* subfont
* Unicode font
* variable font
* webfont

##### Descendants

* → Thai: ฟอนต์ (fɔ́n)

##### Translations
#### Verb

font (third-person singular simple present fonts, present participle fonting, simple past and past participle fonted)
* (television, colloquial, transitive) To overlay (text) on the picture.
** 1981, William Safire, On language, page 78:When figures or quotes are thought helpful to understanding a spot, they're "fonted" over the cover picture.
** 1987, The Foundation Center, Promoting issues & ideas: a guide to public relations for nonprofit organizations, page 97:[…] character generator instead of an easel card to create letters on camera or telephone numbers that can run across the TV screen. The process is called fonting.

#### References

* “font” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
* Bringhurst, Robert (2002). The Elements of Typographic Style, version 2.5, pp 291–2. Vancouver, Hartley & Marks. →ISBN.

### Etymology 3

Apparently from fount, with influence from the senses above (under etymology 1).

#### Noun

font (plural fonts)
* (figuratively) A source, wellspring, fount.
** 1824 — George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan, canto V
    A gaudy taste; for they are little skill'd in The arts of which these lands were once the font
** 1910, Arthur Edward Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, part II:As I am not drawing here on the font of imagination to refresh that of fact and experience, I do not suggest that the Tarot set the example of expressing Secret Doctrine in pictures and that it was followed by Hermetic writers; but it is noticeable that it is perhaps the earliest example of this art.
** 1915, Woodrow Wilson, Third State of the Union Address:I am interested to fix your attention on this prospect now because unless you take it within your view and permit the full significance of it to command your thought I cannot find the right light in which to set forth the particular matter that lies at the very font of my whole thought as I address you to-day.
** 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:The Bible lays special stress on the fear of God as the font of wisdom.

##### Derived terms

* font of all wisdom

##### Translations
### Further reading

* font on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* holy water font on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* baptismal font on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin fontem m.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈfɔn]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈfɔnt]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

font f (plural fonts)
* fountain
* source (of water)
* source (origin)
* (journalism) source
* (typography) font

#### Synonyms

(fountain): fontana

#### Derived terms

* codi font
* codi font obert

#### Related terms

* fontaner
* fontaneria
* fontinyol

### Further reading

* “font” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “font”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “font” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “font” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɔ̃/, (in liaison) /fɔ̃.t‿/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔ̃

### Verb

font
* third-person plural present indicative of faire

## Friulian
### Alternative forms

* fonz

### Etymology

From Latin fundus.

### Noun

font m (plural fonts)
* bottom
* background
* landed property, farm
* fund

#### Related terms

* profont

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfont]
* Hyphenation: font
* Rhymes: -ont

### Etymology 1

From German Pfund, from Latin pondo.

#### Noun

font (plural fontok)
* pound (weight)
* pound (currency unit)
    Synonym: font sterling

##### Derived terms

* fontol
* fontos

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English font, from Middle French fonte, feminine past participle of fondre (“to melt”), from Latin fundō (“I melt”).

#### Noun

font (plural fontok)
* (typography) digital font (set of glyphs of unified design contained in a computer file)

##### Declension
### Etymology 3

From the verb fon (“to spin [yarn], braid [hair], weave [basket], twist [rope], twine [arms]”) +‎ -t.

#### Verb

font
* third-person singular indicative past indefinite of fon

#### Participle

font
* past participle of fon
    Synonym: (in certain senses) fonott

##### Declension
### References

* 1 2 Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

### Further reading

* (measure of weight; currency): font in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* (past participle of fon: spun, braided, woven, twisted, twined): font in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Latin fons, via Old Norse fontr (sense 1), and French fonte, via English font (sense 2).

### Noun

font m (definite singular fonten, indefinite plural fonter, definite plural fontene)
* a baptismal font
* (typography) font, or fount (UK)

### References

* “font” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Latin fons, via Old Norse fontr (sense 1), and French fonte, via English font (sense 2).

### Noun

font m (definite singular fonten, indefinite plural fontar, definite plural fontane)
* a baptismal font
* (typography) font, or fount (UK)

### References

* “font” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old English
### Noun

font m
* Alternative form of fant

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English font, from Middle French fonte, feminine past participle of verb fondre (“to melt”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɔnt/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔnt
* Syllabification: font

### Noun

font m inan
* (computing) font (computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* font in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English font.

### Noun

font n (plural fonturi)
* (typography) font

#### Declension
## Swedish
### Noun

font c
* (typography) a font

#### Usage notes

* The synonym teckensnitt is considered more correct.

#### Synonyms

* teckensnitt