Font family

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Font family Futura , a sample text with as many different letters ( pangram ) and design elements of the font as possible

Font family is a term from typography and describes a group of related font styles with different widths (narrow, wide, ...), weights (light, normal, bold, ...) and character positions (normal, italic, ...), which in many cases are in the Practice designed by a specific typeface designer and have common shape features.

Well-developed font families can consist of several dozen members. A font family can be a font class in accordance with in most cases 16518 DIN assign, for example, the Neoclassical roman , the sans serif linear antiqua or the script fonts .

Well-known font families are Helvetica , Futura , Arial and FF Meta .

Related families with different classification features are as Font family groups called such. B. the thesis or scala .