raster font

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

raster font
    n 1: the font that is displayed on a computer screen; "when the
         screen font resembles a printed font a document may look
         approximately the same on the screen as it will when
         printed" [syn: {screen font}, {raster font}]

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

bitmap font
raster font

   <text> A {font} where each character is stored as an {array}
   of {pixels} (a {bitmap}).  Such fonts are not easily scalable,
   in contrast to {vectored fonts} (like those used in
   {PostScript}).

   [Examples?]

   (1995-02-16)

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