type - printed characters; "small type is hard to read"

type family - a complete set of type suitable for printing text

constant-width font, fixed-width font, monospaced font, typewriter font - a typeface is which each character is given the same width (as by a typewriter)

proportional font - any font whose different characters have different widths

cartridge font, font cartridge - any font that is contained in a cartridge that can be plugged into a computer printer

black letter, Gothic - a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries

bold, bold face, boldface - a typeface with thick heavy lines

italic - a typeface with letters slanting upward to the right

raster font, screen font - the font that is displayed on a computer screen; "when the screen font resembles a printed font a document may look approximately the same on the screen as it will when printed"

Helvetica, sans serif - a typeface in which characters have no serifs