What is a font?

Answer 1

The <font> tag is a deprecated way of telling the browser that the text contained between the tag and its closing </font> tag should have certain font properties. This tag has been replaced by the <span> tag in connection with CSS, but most browsers still support the old <font> tag for the sake of backward compatibility. Here are some examples of use.

<font face="Times New Roman">text</font>

<font color="red">text</font>

<font size="+1">text</font>

<font face="Arial" color="blue" size=7>text</font>

These three bits of markup could be done "correctly" using CSS as follows:

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">text</span> <span style="color: red;">text</span>

<span style="font-size: larger;">text</span> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: "blue"; font-size: xx-large;">text</span>

Answer 2

A complete character set of a single size and style of a particular typeface.