| English | German |
| bitmapped font | Bitmapschriftart (A font that is stored as a bitmap. Raster fonts are designed with a specific size and resolution for a specific printer and cannot be scaled or rotated. If a printer does not support raster fonts, it will not print them. The five raster fonts are Courier, MS Sans Serif, MS Serif, Small, and Symbol) |
| cartridge font | Schriftart auf Druckerpatrone (A font contained in a plug-in cartridge and used to add fonts to laser, ink-jet, or high-end dot-matrix printers. Cartridge fonts are distinguished both from internal fonts, which are contained in read-only memory (ROM) in the printer and are always available, and from downloadable (soft) fonts, which reside on disk and which can be sent to the printer as needed) |
| Change Font | Schriftart ändern... (A button that opens the Change Font dialog box, where the user can select a new font, style, size, and effects for instant messages) |
| Change Message Font | Schriftart für Nachrichten ändern (A button in the Options dialog box, Instant Messages tab, where the user can change the font of the text of instant message conversations) |
| default font | Standardschriftart (The font that a program uses by default to display text) |
| device font | Druckerschriftart (A font residing in or intended for a printer. Font cartridges are available for laser printers that allow your printer print additional fonts. Printer fonts are distinct from screen fonts, which are designed for displaying text on a computer) |
| downloadable font | downloadbare Schriftart (A set of characters that are copied from a computers disk to a printers memory when requested for printing a document. Downloadable fonts are most commonly used with laser printers, although dot matrix printers can accept some of them) |
| Font Cache Service | Dienst für den Schriftartencache (A Win32 service process that optimizes performance of applications by caching commonly used font data. Applications will start this service if it is not already running. It can be disabled, though doing so will degrade application performance) |
| font cartridge | Schriftpatrone (A plug-in unit available for some printers that contains fonts in several styles and sizes. As with downloadable fonts, printers using font cartridges can produce characters in sizes and styles other than those created by the fonts built into it) |
| font embedding | Schriftarteinbettung (The act of inserting font information into the publication or the compiled application. Once the font is embedded, the information becomes part of the publication or the application) |
| font family | Schriftfamilie (" The set of available fonts representing variations of a single typeface. For example, Times Roman and Times Roman Italic are members of the same font family. When the user indicates italic, the system selects the correct italic font for the font family, with its characteristic appearance. If there is no italic font in the family, the system simply slants, or "obliques", the corresponding roman character.") |
| font manager | Schriftart-Manager (A software program that helps you increase or decrease the sets of available fonts) |
| font previewer | Schriftartvorschau (A tool or feature that allows users to see different fonts, typography formats, and lettershapes that display on the computer and/or on Web sites) |
| font scheme | Schriftartenschema (A pre-designed combination of fonts that work well together) |
| font size | Schriftgrad (The point size of a set of characters in a particular typeface) |
| font style | Schriftschnitt (The stylistic attributes of a font - such as bold, italic, and underline) |
| font subsetting | Unterklasse der Schriftarten (Embedding a limited number of characters specific to one font, reducing file size) |
| font substitution | Schriftartenersetzung (A substitution that occurs when Windows or your printer uses a font similar to the one you used in your publication to display or print your publication) |
| monospace font | Festbreitenschriftart (A font (set of characters in a particular style and size), similar to that used on a typewriter, in which each character occupies the same amount of horizontal space regardless of its width-an i, for example, taking as much room as an m) |
| OpenType font | OpenType-Schriftart (A type of computer font that can be rotated or scaled to any size. OpenType fonts are clear and readable in all sizes and can be sent to any printer or other output device that is supported by Windows) |
| outline font | Outlineschriftart (A font (type design) stored in a computer or printer as a set of outlines for drawing each of the alphabetic and other characters in a character set. Outline fonts are templates rather than actual patterns of dots and are scaled up or down to match a particular type size) |
| plotter font | Plotterschriftart (A font created by a series of dots connected by lines. Plotter fonts can be scaled to any size and are most often printed on plotters. Some dot-matrix printers also support plotter fonts) |
| PostScript font | PostScript-Schriftart (A type of computer font created by Adobe Systems. PostScript fonts are smooth, detailed, and of high quality) |
| printer font | Druckerschriftart (A font residing in or intended for a printer. Font cartridges are available for laser printers that allow your printer print additional fonts. Printer fonts are distinct from screen fonts, which are designed for displaying text on a computer) |
| raster font | Rasterschriftart (A font that is stored as a bitmap. Raster fonts are designed with a specific size and resolution for a specific printer and cannot be scaled or rotated. If a printer does not support raster fonts, it will not print them. The five raster fonts are Courier, MS Sans Serif, MS Serif, Small, and Symbol) |
| screen font | Bildschirmschriftart (A typeface designed for display on a computer monitor screen. A screen font often has an accompanying PostScript font for printing to PostScript-compatible printers) |
| soft font | ladbare Schriftart (A set of characters that are copied from a computers disk to a printers memory when requested for printing a document. Downloadable fonts are most commonly used with laser printers, although dot matrix printers can accept some of them) |
| standard font | Standardschriftart (The default text font for worksheets. The standard font determines the default font for the Normal cell style) |
| theme font | Schriftartendesign (One of a set of major and minor fonts that is applied to a file. Theme fonts, theme colors, and theme effects compose a theme) |
| TrueType font | TrueType-Schriftart (A type of computer font that can be scaled to any size. TrueType fonts are clear and readable in all sizes and can be sent to any printer or other output device that is supported by Windows) |
| Type 1 fonts | Typ 1-Schriftart (Scalable fonts designed to work with PostScript devices) |
| vector font | Vektorschriftart (A font rendered from a mathematical model, in which each character is defined as a set of lines drawn between points. Vector fonts can be cleanly scaled to any size or aspect ratio) |
| Windows Font Cache Service | Windows-Dienst für den Schriftartencache (A Win32 service process that optimizes performance of applications by caching commonly used font data. Applications will start this service if it is not already running. It can be disabled, though doing so will degrade application performance) |
