Usually means: Typography style with thinner strokes.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. lightface: Merriam-Webster
  2. lightface: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lightface: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lightface: Wiktionary
  5. lightface: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. lightface: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. lightface: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. lightface: Dictionary.com
  9. lightface: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lightface)

▸ noun:  The opposite of boldface, a font that is light (has a low ratio of ink to white space).

Similar:
face, font, clockface, fatface, downface, falseface, moon face, foglight, whiteface, foot-light, more...

Opposite:
bold, heavy

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Similar:
face, font, clockface, fatface, downface, falseface, moon face, foglight, whiteface, foot-light, more...

Opposite:
bold, heavy



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