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                <div><p>A <dfn class="term">font</dfn> is
a complete set of characters—letters, numbers, and symbols—that share
a common weight, width, and style, such as 10‑pt Adobe Garamond
Bold. </p>
<p><dfn class="term">Typefaces </dfn>(often
called <dfn class="term">type families</dfn> or <dfn class="term">font families</dfn>)
are collections of fonts that share an overall appearance, and are
designed to be used together, such as Adobe Garamond.</p>
<p>A <dfn class="term">type style</dfn> is a variant version of an individual
font in a font family. Typically, the <dfn class="term">Roman</dfn> or <dfn class="term">Plain</dfn> (the
actual name varies from family to family) member of a font family
is the base font, which may include type styles such as regular,
bold, semibold, italic, and bold italic. If a font doesn’t include
the style you want, you can apply <dfn class="term">faux</dfn> styles—simulated
versions of bold, italic, superscript, subscript, all caps, and
small caps styles.</p>
<p>Typefaces include many characters in addition to the ones you
see on your keyboard. Depending on the font, these characters can
include ligatures, fractions, swashes, ornaments, ordinals, titling
and stylistic alternates, superior and inferior characters, old‑style
figures, and lining figures. A <dfn class="term">glyph</dfn> is a specific form
of a character. For example, in certain fonts, the capital letter
A is available in several forms, such as swash and small cap.</p>
<p>In addition to the fonts installed on your system, you can also
use the fonts installed in these folders:</p>
<dl><dt class="dlterm">Windows</dt>
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<p>If you install a Type 1, TrueType, OpenType, or CID font into
the local Fonts folder, the font appears in Adobe applications only.</p>
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