Icon vs Font - What's the difference?
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An image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.
A religious painting, often done on wooden panels.
A person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing.
A small picture which represents something (such as an icon on a computer screen which when clicked performs some function.)
(linguistics) A type of noun whereby the form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic words are necessarily all icons. See also (symbol) and (index).
Pictual representations of files, programs and folders on a computer.
A receptacle in a church for holy water - especially one used in baptism
A receptacle for oil in a lamp.
(figuratively) spring, source, fountain
* 1919 , :
(typography) A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters.
# In metal typesetting, a set of type sorts in one size.
# In phototypesetting, a set of patterns forming glyphs of any size, or the film they are stored on.
# In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.
(computing) A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer. A font file.
(figuratively) A source, wellspring, fount.
* 1824 — , canto V
* 1910 — , part II
* 1915 —
As a noun icon
is an image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.As a verb font is
.icon
English
(wikipedia icon)Alternative forms
* eikon, ikonNoun
(en noun)- That man is an icon in the business; he personifies loyalty and good business sense.
Derived terms
* aniconic, aniconism * iconismAnagrams
* * * ----font
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) font, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- The Bible lays special stress on the fear of God as the font of wisdom.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) fonte, feminine past participle of verb .Alternative forms
* fount (UK)Noun
(wikipedia font) (en noun)Derived terms
* font family * multilingual font * Unicode font * bitmap font * screen font * outline font * printer font * font suitcase * roman fontReferences
* * Bringhurst, Robert (2002). The Elements of Typographic Style, version 2.5 , pp 291–2. Vancouver, Hartley & Marks. ISBN 0-88179-133-4.Etymology 3
Apparently from (fount), with influence from the senses above (under etymology 1).Noun
(en noun)- A gaudy taste; for they are little skill'd in
The arts of which these lands were once the font
- As I am not drawing here on the font of imagination to refresh that of fact and experience, I do not suggest that the Tarot set the example of expressing Secret Doctrine in pictures and that it was followed by Hermetic writers; but it is noticeable that it is perhaps the earliest example of this art.
- I am interested to fix your attention on this prospect now because unless you take it within your view and permit the full significance of it to command your thought I cannot find the right light in which to set forth the particular matter that lies at the very font of my whole thought as I address you to-day.