adoment : Java Glossary

adoment

Fonts have a basic family name, e.g. Arial then various suffixes tacked on called adoments to indicate such things as font weight, italic, condensed, monospaced, characters suppported. A few of the common adoments are:

light
heavy
black
bold
bolditalic
caption
demibold
display
expert: rich character set
extra black
extra bold
HandTooled
heavyface
italic
light
monospaced
narrow
oblique
old style
pro: rich character set
regular
sans
semibold
serif
subhead
Typewriter
ultra bold

Bitstream often adds the BT adoment. Esperanto fonts often add the Eo (the 2-character Esperanto language code) or sudEuro adoment. You can map various CSS attributes bold, italic, font-weight:700 etc. onto specific font variants with the @font-face style tag.

When you buy fonts, you typically buy just the variants you need. You don’t automatically get the bold and italic variants when you buy the base font.

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