FONTS

1- What is a font?
A font is essentially the design for a set of characters.
2- What is a pitch? And fixed pitch?

The width is measured by pitch, which refers to how many characters can fit in an inch. The width is measured by pitch, which refers to how many characters can fit in an inch.

3- What is a font family? Name some...

A font family is a group of fonts that have similarities in design. One member of the font family may be bold, while another member of the same family may be italic

4- What is the difference between font and typeface?

The term font is often used as a synonym for typeface, which is not technically correct. For example, some may refer to Times Roman as a font, but it is actually a typeface that defines the shape of each character. Within the Times Roman typeface there are many fonts to choose from — different sizes and styles (e.g., italic, bold and so on).

5- What is the difference between vector and bitmap fonts?

bit-mapped font where every character is represented by an arrangement of dots. To print a bit-mapped character, a printer simply locates the character's bit-mapped representation stored in memory and prints the corresponding dots. Each different font, even when the typeface is the same, requires a different set of bit-maps.

The second method uses a vector graphics system to define fonts. In vector graphics systems, the shape or outline of each character is defined geometrically. The typeface can be displayed in any size, so a single font description really represents innumerable fonts. For this reason, vector fonts are called scalable fonts as they can be scaled to any size.

6- What are the synonyms of vector and bitmap fonts?
7- Which of these two is scalable? An outline font is scalable because, given a geometrical description of a typeface, a printer or other display device can generate the characters at any size.
8- What are the most widely used scalable font systems? bit-mapped fonts
9- What kind of printers use scalable fonts? Post script
10- What is tha main problem using fonts on the web? One reason is that small vector fonts do not look very good on low-resolution devices, such as display monitors
11- How do you call the web-safe fonts?
12- What are the safest fonts on the web?
13- Why should you choose "sans serif" fonts for the screen? sans serif fonts are more difficult to read. For this reason, they are used most often for short text components such as headlines or captions.
14- What is the simplest solution if you want to use a very specific font?
15- Choose your favorite font.