a particular family or font of type in which the characters have distinctive features. Typefaces used in modern English bookwork include Aldine Bembo, Baskerville, Caslon, Ehrhardt, Fournier, Garamond, Gill Sans, Imprint, Perpetua, Plantin, Times Roman, Univers. Each typeface has its own special characteristics. Characters in a particular point size or weight such as bold or italics are called fonts.
in optical character recognition, a character style with a given relative dimensions and line thicknesses
This Directive shall be without prejudice to provisions concerning in particular patent rights, trade marks, design rights, utility models, topographies of semi-conductor products, type faces, conditional access, access to cable of broadcasting services, protection of national treasures, legal deposit requirements, laws on restrictive practices and unfair competition, trade secrets, security, confidentiality, data protection and privacy, access to public documents, the law of contract.