Specifications

as Times Roman and Times Bold, are similar enough in design
that you can mix them easily while retaining the same basic
font design throughout your document.
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 d@krent meaning to this term. Font is sometimes
used to rejkr to a set of characters with the same style and same size;
other times, it encompasses the entire set of characters 0fezwt-y size
and style ofa 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
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