modern font
- noun
- Specialized
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tipografía moderna
- Designers often choose a modern font for high-end fashion magazines to convey sophistication.
Examples
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This book was printed using a modern font to achieve a clean, elegant look.
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The logo uses a bold modern font to stand out on the product packaging.
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The designer chose a modern font for the logo.
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I prefer using modern fonts in my presentations.
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Designers often choose a modern font for high-end fashion magazines to convey sophistication.
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The logo uses a bold modern font to stand out on the product packaging.
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This book was printed using a modern font to achieve a clean, elegant look.
Synonyms
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A style of printed letters with thin ends and strong vertical lines
Antonyms
- Specialized
A traditional set of printed letters with small slanted ends and mostly even line thickness
How Modern
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a straightforward adjective+noun composition: a B1 learner who knows 'modern' (contemporary/new) and 'font' (typeface) can infer it means a font in a modern or contemporary style. Although in typography 'Modern' can denote a specific Didone family, the basic compositional meaning is transparent and learnable from the constituents.
Etymology
Modern font comes from a style of printed letters first made in the late 1700s by designers such as Bodoni. Those letters had very thin small lines at the ends of letters and strong thick vertical strokes, so they looked clean and elegant, and that's why a modern font today is used to give a design a 'stylish' or 'high-end' look.