boldface

noun, verb, adj — 3 senses

boldface

noun

Etymology From bold + face.

1

Media, Publishing, Typography A font that is dark, having a high ratio of ink to white space, written or drawn with thick strong lines.

boldface

verb

Etymology From bold + face.

1

To print or write in a boldfaced font.

  • Boldface the due date so they are sure to see it.
Derived terms
unboldface

boldface

adj

Etymology From bold + face.

1

Synonym of boldfaced.

  • While the retailer talks about savings of 10 percent off on every item in stock in very boldface type, there is a fine line that indicates at the bottom of the ad, “with the exception of a few fair trade items.”1975, Fair Trade Laws: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Fourth Congress, First Session, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 34:
  • If you make a word boldface, it is boldface on the screen.1985, Carole Boggs Matthews, Martin S. Matthews, Word Processing for the IBM PC and PCjr and Compatible Computers, McGraw-Hill Book Company, →ISBN, page 396:
4 more examples
  • ([…]; although it was boldface, it did not stand out because all the type on the label was bold).2001, Richard A. Lord, A Treatise on the Law of Contracts, West Group, page 480:
  • It is boldface and placed next to the left margin.2005, Leigh E. Zeitz, Keyboarding Made Simple, Made Simple Books:
  • Unicode is constrained. It focuses on one essential task: encoding the world’s writing systems, or character sets. It ignores issues such as the font, the size, the alignment of the character, whether it is boldface or italic, etc.2021, Zhiwei Xu, Jialin Zhang, Computational Thinking: A Perspective on Computer Science, Springer Nature Singapore, →ISBN, page 192:
  • Musk’s right-wing turn isn’t universal or even typical: Reporting suggests that even with the rightward turn of several boldface names, Silicon Valley remains heavily Democratic.2024 September 26, Paul Krugman, “The Tech Bro Style in American Politics”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
Derived terms
non-boldface
Related terms
italic

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