font element

Represents one of the fonts used in the document.

## Usage

    <font
    	name="stringType"
    />

## Element Information

Element type | fontElt
Namespace | http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml
Schema name | wordnet

## Elements and Attributes

### Parent Elements

Element | Description
--- | ---
fonts | Represents font definitions.

### Child Elements

Element | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
altName | stringProperty | Represents the alternate name for the font.
panose-1 | panoseProperty | Represents the PANOSE typeface classification number, which is a compact 10-byte description of a fonts critical visual characteristics, such as contrast, weight, and serif style. The digits represent Family Kind, Serif Style, Weight, Proportion, Contrast, Stroke Variation, Arm Style, Letterform, Midline, and X-Height.
charset | ucharHexNumberProperty | Represents the character set for the font.
family | fontFamilyProperty | Represents the font family this font belongs to. A font family is a set of fonts having common stroke width and serif characteristics. There are five font families. A sixth family allows Word to use the default font.
notTrueType | onOffProperty | Represents indicates that this font is not a TrueType or OpenType font, but rather a raster or vector font.
pitch | pitchElt | Represents specified the font pitch. The pitch indicates if the font is fixed pitch, proportionally spaced, or relies on a default setting.
sig | fontSigElt | Contains information identifying the code pages and Unicode subranges for which a specified font provides glyphs.

### Attributes

Attribute | Type | Required | Description | Possible Values
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
name | stringType | optional | Gets or sets the face name of this font. |

## Definition

XML
    <xsd:element name="font" type="fontElt" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" ">

          </xsd:element>

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