outline font

A computer font in which each character to be displayed or printed is represented as a series of curves and lines. Outline fonts are smoothed and scaled more easily than bitmapped fonts.

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outline font

(Computer Science) computing a font format that makes use of fillable geometric outlines of letters and symbols, allowing fonts to be scaled up or down while still retaining their intended shape. Also called: vector font Compare bitmap font

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