A font is a collection of glyphs that share a common design. A font is
characterized by its typeface, style, and size.

• The font typeface determines the specific characteristics of the glyphs,
  such as the relative width of the thick and thin strokes used in any specified
  character.

• The style determines the font weight and slant. Font weights can range from
  thin to black. Slants can be roman (upright) or italic.

• The size of a font is the distance from the bottom of a lowercase g to the
  top of an adjacent uppercase M, measured in points. A point is approximately one
  seventy–second (1/72) of an inch.

Windows Embedded CE supports TrueType and raster font technologies, but only
one font technology can be used on a specified OS design. Generally, Windows
Embedded CE uses Tahoma as the default system font. There is no default font for
Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese, so you must load at
least one font so that your application can have text output.

After you choose TrueType or raster font technology during OS design, you
cannot change technologies with an application.

TrueType is the default in Windows Embedded CE, but you can implement raster
technology in your OS design by adding the Raster Fonts Support Catalog item
from the Platform Builder Catalog to your OS design.

This section contains information on how to use Fonts functionality in your
applications and descriptions of Fonts programming elements.

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