Roman font
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A font that is upright, as opposed to oblique or italic.
"It will automatically reduce the size of the subscripts identified by “sub” and will choose italic or roman fonts for the remaining characters as appropriate."
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of roman font. alt-of
"The Roman fonts of Aldus were eclipsed by his Italic and Greek, but he cut several fine alphabets."
- 3 An oldstyle serif font or typeface (sometimes capitalized "Roman").
"The Roman fonts of Aldus were eclipsed by his Italic and Greek, but he cut several fine alphabets."
- 4 A font supporting the characters of the Latin alphabet.
"Although 1 byte is all that is needed for Roman fonts, 2 bytes are needed for other character sets."
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"It will automatically reduce the size of the subscripts identified by “sub” and will choose italic or roman fonts for the remaining characters as appropriate."
Etymology
From roman + font.