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webfont

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Etymology

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From Web +‎ font.

Noun

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webfont (plural webfonts)

  1. (computing, Internet) A font designed for or used on the Internet.
    • 2017, Travis Faas, An Introduction to HTML5 Game Development with Phaser.js, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 237:
      The second approach is to use fonts that were designed for computer use like TTF and include them in the game as a webfont.
    • 2017, Marli Ritter, Cara Winterbottom, UX for the Web, Packt Publishing, →ISBN, page 31:
      A webfont is a font that's not pre-installed on the user's computer when browsing a website, but instead the webfont reference is coded in the backend and is downloaded when the user opens the website in a browser.