type family

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   a complete set of type suitable for printing text

   Broadertype

Questions about type family

What does type family mean?

type family means "a complete set of type suitable for printing text".

Is type family a common word?

type family 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.