Alternatively called a vector font or font scaling, a scalable font can increase in size without causing any degradation in the quality. Unlike bitmapped fonts, scalable fonts may be manipulated to generate characters of variable sizes without the use of a new file or set of characters. These fonts are stored as several mathematical expressions that define the curves and lines of the characters.

As shown in the example above, zooming in on the “Computer Hope” font causes no degradation in the quality when scalable, whereas the bitmapped font becomes quite pixelated.

Bitmap font, Font, Font scaling, Scale, Typography terms, Vector, Video terms

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