Tips On Choosing A Font - Epson EPL-5000 Guide De L'utilisateur

The entire set of all styles sharing a font design makes up the font
family. When you select a font using your software's Font menu, you
are actually selecting the font family. A font family normally contains
four fonts: Roman (or Medium), Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic. Some
font families, however, contain other styles such as oblique (similar to
italic) and demi and book, which have slightly different line weights
from Roman.
Note:
Although this manual uses the term font as described here, other
sources attach a different meaning to this term. Font is sometimes
used to refer to a set of characters with the same style and same size;
other times, it encompasses the entire set of characters of every size
and style of a certain typographical design.
Although fonts come in hundreds of designs, all fonts can be
classified either as serif or sans serif. Serifs are the short decorative
strokes that come off the main lines of a character, such as the curl at
the bottom of the letter n. Serif fonts are commonly used for text. The
text you are reading is Palatino, a serif font.
Sans serif fonts, such as Arial, have no serifs and are often used for
titles and heads (as in this manual) and within tables and diagrams.

Tips on Choosing a Font

The following guidelines will help you in creating attractive
documents that are easy to read:
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Fonts