old style font

1. 1.

   a typeface (based on an 18th century design) distinguished by irregularity and slanted ascender serifs and little contrast between light and heavy strokes

   Synonymsold style

   Broaderproportional font

Questions about old style font

What does old style font mean?

old style font means "a typeface (based on an 18th century design) distinguished by irregularity and slanted ascender serifs and little contrast between light and heavy strokes".

What is another word for old style font?

Close synonyms include old style. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is old style font a common word?

old style font is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.