What's the difference between font and masthead?

Font


Definition:

  • (n.) A complete assortment of printing type of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing with that variety of types; a fount.
  • (n.) A fountain; a spring; a source.
  • (n.) A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) • iOS 7 is the product of a major redesign – new, thin fonts and a brighter interface with more subtle animation.
  • (2) With no font preferences, every designer can do a picture-perfect layout on every screen, because they don't have to reflow the text accordingly, which is what websites should always do," he says.
  • (3) A pixação-inspired font, Adrenalina , can be downloaded for US$25 and, in 2012, the 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art invited a group of pixadores to make an “artistic intervention”.
  • (4) Possible signings Ryan Bertrand, Virgil van Djik, José Fonte (Southampton).
  • (5) But the deeply idiosyncratic Octopuss font on the station sign is a reminder that ‘77 was also the year of Donna Summer’s I Feel Love and Saturday Night Fever: the end of the world may have been nigh, but one corner of Berlin was boogying the night away to uphold western civilisation.
  • (6) At least Farah has now put some distance in their relationship by moving to Font Romeu, his traditional summer camp in the south of France.
  • (7) Stuart, our guide from Wilderness Scotland, is easy-going and unassuming, and also a font of knowledge and a meticulous safety checker.
  • (8) These led to the following conclusions: to construct the best bibliographic searching system at the present time, 1) a concept of micro-to-mainframe links (MML) is needed for the computer hardware network; 2) multi-lingual font standards and an excellent common user-computer interface are needed for the computer software; 3) a short course and education of database management systems, and support of personal information processing for retrieved data are necessary for the practical use of the system.
  • (9) A series of 126 cases of orbitomaxillozygomatic fractures observed in the Maxillofacial Unit of Miulli Hospital, Acquaviva delle Fonte between January 1980 and December 1987 is examined.
  • (10) On the U6, a line once dotted with “ghost stations” closed during the GDR era, there are still some stops which look lost in time, such as Platz der Luftbrücke or Naturkundemuseum, their names spelled out in wobbly handcarved fonts.
  • (11) Fonts differ between lines, sometimes between stations on the same line, and in a couple of instances even between platforms at the same station.
  • (12) Southampton had lost Toby Alderweireld to an early injury but Florin Gardos seamlessly filled the gap alongside José Fonte.
  • (13) Sturridge raced down the right and attempted to lay the ball across to the unmarked Suárez but José Fonte stretched to poke the ball behind just as the Uruguayan prepared to pounce.
  • (14) The absence of Toby Alderweireld from central defence is an obvious worry as the Belgian has formed a solid partnership with José Fonte since arriving on loan from Atlético Madrid in September.
  • (15) After Ramsey's fancy flick was diverted by Jose Fonte, Wilshere burst on to the ball and eked out a chip so delicate it sailed over Boruc as if in slow motion.
  • (16) Suarez would have an empty net to sidefoot into had the ball reached him, Boruc having raced out to meet Sturridge, but the low pass is poked out of play by Fonte, sliding in brilliantly.
  • (17) Southampton 1-1 Sunderland (Fonte 88) Another late goal for the Saints.
  • (18) After Forster’s world-class, one-handed save from Giroud’s header, Arsenal sensed the decisive moment was close and it came after José Fonte appeared to have handled inside the area under pressure from Giroud.
  • (19) Spends much of each year training at altitude at Font Romeu in the French Pyrenees and Albuquerque, New Mexico.
  • (20) Possible signings José Fonte (Southampton), Nélson Semedo (Benfica).

Masthead


Definition:

  • (n.) The top or head of a mast; the part of a mast above the hounds.
  • (v. t.) To cause to go to the masthead as a punishment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It could be a melancholic experience, reflecting the state of the left in general – clipping off the mastheads at the end of the week of all the unsold copies of Weekly Worker , International Communist Current and Lalkar , making odd smelling vegan drinks for the older members of the co-op, ringing up a number left by someone who'd ordered Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus to tell them their book had arrived and finding that it had been ordered by a person now deceased.
  • (2) The title will simply be called the Sun, with an identical masthead to the daily, and insiders have been at pains to make it clear that the newspaper is not a "Sun on Sunday" – but instead simply a Sunday edition of the newspaper that will have some "specialist staff" but without its own editor.
  • (3) The only News Corp heritage masthead to rank in the top 10 is the Herald Sun, although news.com.au is No.
  • (4) The continued sniping between Rinehart and the board comes after three weeks of major upheavals at Fairfax, during which the company announced it was cutting 1,900 jobs, converting its two flagship mastheads from broadsheets to tabloids, and closing its two main printing presses.
  • (5) I have been increasingly uncomfortable with the “drawbridges” rhetoric on immigration of the far right, and was horrified to see similar suggestions on leaflets under Labour party mastheads.
  • (6) Many quoted Evelyn Beatrice Hall’s expression of Voltaire’s beliefs: “I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.’’ When the Charlie Hebdo website , which was down for much of the day, came back online it carried the phrase Je Suis Charlie in bold letters, with Charlie written in the font of the publication’s masthead.
  • (7) A final question mark as to that goal perhaps comes from the diversity of otherwise of the site’s masthead.
  • (8) The newspaper costs 50p and the masthead describes it as “The newspaper that supports an independent Scotland”.
  • (9) However, Fairfax Media and some News Corp mastheads do not generally link to other news sources, while the Daily Mail and Guardian Australia do.
  • (10) DMA will be contacting News Corp after discovering repeated examples of stories and pictures being taken from MailOnline in recent weeks, without proper attribution or internet linking.” A News Corp Australia spokesman said: "We stand by the fact that we believe the Daily Mail Australia is breaching our copyright by lifting substantial slabs of original content from a large number of articles from our mastheads."
  • (11) The company's Australian mastheads include The Australian, the Herald Sun and Daily Telegraph.
  • (12) The working title on last weekend's dummy was "Sunday" and broke with the conventional "redtop" format for popular tabloids with a yellow and white masthead.
  • (13) A News Corp spokesman said: "We have taken this action because we believe the Daily Mail Australia is breaching our copyright by lifting substantial slabs of original content from a large number of articles from our mastheads."
  • (14) To run all this he has established a brand management business, employing dozens of people: a TV production company through which he controls both the product and the fees, a production line for the books, a collection of branded foods and cooking implements, the Jamie's Italian brand of mid-market restaurants, even a magazine with his name on the masthead, à la Oprah.
  • (15) The program has demonstrably failed to apply the same ‘recognised standards of objective journalism’ to which it is bound by statute and which it expects of the media each week.” In the interview, Mitchell was as open as he has ever been about the newspaper’s financial status, conceding that the masthead was not profitable and had not been so since 2008.
  • (16) By having our journalists and contributors feature with prominence in our campaign and [TV commercials], we are effectively communicating the core of what we offer readers.” A News Corp Australia spokesman told Guardian Australia: “Among other things, the campaign highlights that our mastheads deliver outstanding local news coverage.
  • (17) Cleveland was founded in 1796 by General Moses Cleaveland; the spelling changed in 1831 when the “a” was dropped to fit the city’s name on a newspaper masthead.
  • (18) At the heart of the changes, which will see the return of "London" to the paper's masthead, is a change of tone that will emphasise the positive and move away from what Greig and, he says, readers saw as a relentlessly negative tone.
  • (19) The letter sent to retailers showing The National’s masthead.
  • (20) At First Look, behind-the-scenes Laura Poitras is one of two main female names on a virtual masthead that just added John Cook from Gawker ( to run Greenwald’s magazine ) to join Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone ( to lead his own ).