Definition of Type family

1. Noun. A complete set of type suitable for printing text.

Generic synonyms: Type
Member holonyms: Case, Face, Font, Fount, Typeface

Lexicographical Neighbors of Type Family

type I hyperlipoproteinaemia
type I interferon
type I mortality
type O
type VIII mucopolysaccharidosis
type VII mucopolysaccharidosis
type VI mucopolysaccharidosis
type V acrocephalosyndactyly
type V familial hyperlipoproteinaemia
type V mucopolysaccharidosis
type a personality
type collection
type collections
type culture
type design
type family (current term)
type foundry
type genus
type horizon
type host
type i error
type localities
type locality
type material
type metal
type of architecture
type safety
type series
type species
type specimen

Literary usage of Type family

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dutch Type by Jan Middendorp (2004)
"In 1999 the Heineken logo became the starting point of an extended type family developed by the Amsterdam design firm Eden (formerly BRS Premsela Vonk). ..."

2. Formative Influences of Legal Development by Albert Kocourek, John Henry Wigmore (1918)
"This table shows in the first column the numerical designation, and in the second the name of the type-family of law; in the third column is the dominant ..."

3. Printing Types: Their History, Forms, and Use : a Study in Survivals by Daniel Berkeley Updike (1922)
"... next c /*. step in the development of the modern face type-family. Alexander Wilson, who in the eighteenth century made types for the brothers Foulis, ..."

4. Security Awareness in the 1980s: Featured Articles From Security Awareness (1992)
"The ring-leader also had a clear concept of the network he was attempting to put together: He wished he had a "Mafia-type family, where everyone was closed- ..."

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