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proportional font vs old style font

old style font vs proportional font

proportional font and old style font both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
proportional font Yes No No No
old style font Yes No No No
As nouns, old style font is a hyponym of proportional font; that is, old style font is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than proportional font:
  • proportional font: any font whose different characters have different widths
  • old style font: a typeface (based on an 18th century design) distinguished by irregularity and slanted ascender serifs and little contrast between light and heavy strokes
Other hyponyms of proportional font include Bodoni, Bodoni font, modern, modern font, old style, roman, roman letters, roman print, roman type.
proportional font (noun) old style font (noun)
any font whose different characters have different widths a typeface (based on an 18th century design) distinguished by irregularity and slanted ascender serifs and little contrast between light and heavy strokes
Difference between proportional font and old style font

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