Computer font
![An assortment of bitmap fonts from the first version of the Macintosh operating system.](/Images/godic/202502/09/Original_Mac_fonts1132.png")
![With stroke-based fonts, the same stroke paths can be filled with different stroke profiles resulting in different visual shapes without the need to specify the vertex positions of each outline, as is the case with outline fonts.](/Images/godic/202502/09/Metafont_pens1132.png")
A computer font (or font) is an electronic data file containing a set of glyphs, characters, or symbols such as dingbats. Although the term font first referred to a set of metal type sorts in one style and size, since the 1990s it is generally used to refer to a scalable set of digital shapes that may be printed at many different sizes.