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Definition of Modern font
1. Noun. A typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Modern Font
Literary usage of Modern font
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Archaeologia Cambrensis by Cambrian Archaeological Association, Thomas Rowland Powel, Donald Moore (1885)
"The nave has received a north aisle, affording accommodation to one hundred
additional worshippers. The "modern font" had been replaced, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"... and this arrangement continues in modern times, except where a baptismal chapel
exists. The modern font, as a об ..."
3. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx (1906)
"... was at first made chiefly of wood; in its improved modern font It is made of
iron. To what an extent the old forms of the instruments of production ..."
4. The British Magazine and Monthly Register of Religious and Ecclesiastical by Hugh James Rose, Samuel Roffey Maitland (1841)
"I have seen a modern font in a new church stand within the altar rails. Thus,
the "accustomed" and canonical place being deserted, the font's position has ..."
5. English Church Furniture by John Charles Cox, Alfred Harvey (1908)
"Mention may for once be made of a modern font; the church of Tebay, built in
1880, has a praiseworthy font made out of a ..."
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