Synonyms of font

font

noun

ˈfänt 

as in source

a point or place at which something is invented or provided

a domestic diva who is a seemingly endless font of new ideas

Synonyms & Similar Words

• source
• origin
• fountain
• cradle
• root
• spring
• beginning
• wellspring
• well
• commencement
• genesis
• fountainhead
• start
• seedbed
• threshold
• inception
• day one
• ground zero
• outset
• baseline
• launch
• morning
• first base
• onset
• kickoff
• dawn
• square one
• incipience
• incipiency
• get-go
• nascency
• nascence

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of font

The websites for each of his movies have plain backgrounds and unfussy font choices that put me in mind of pages coded in HTML and accessed on a desktop with a gurgling internet connection in the family study circa 2003. — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026

New wayfinding signs are in Vanderbilt’s preferred font (Libre Calson), and the school’s name is shown in gold lettering above a new iron gate on 21st Street. — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 26 Aug. 2026

Many of them supplement the text with photographs, epigraphs, glossaries, family trees, sketches, timelines, variant tables of contents, alternating fonts and notes to the reader. — Christopher Coffman, The Conversation, 24 Aug. 2026

Having labels with various fonts, colors, and patterns can look loud, from your body wash and hand soap in the bathroom to the labels on your cooking essentials, candles, and other decorative items throughout the house. — Amanda Sims, Architectural Digest, 21 Aug. 2026