Chapter 4
Fonts
This chapter covers font-related topics, including the printing system’s resident and
option fonts, character sets, and usage of font-selection and symbol creation commands.
A font is a set of characters of a particular design. The design is referred to as a typeface.
Several characteristics identify a font. These include the font type (bit map or scalable),
symbol set, spacing, pitch, height, style, stroke weight, and typeface family. In selecting
a font, the printing system searches the available fonts to match these characteristics
based on the highest priority. For details in this regard, see Selecting Fonts Using the
FSET Command on page 4-9 in this chapter.