Text - (Rendering) Font

About

A font is a set of glyphs where each glyph represents a character.

Pitch

fixed pitch / monospace

Text - Monospace - Fixed Pitch Font

Glossary

fixed-width

See Text - Monospace - Fixed Pitch Font

font boosting

List

See

What Font Chrome Pluggin

Software

Inkscape

Text ‣ SVG Font Editor
drawing one glyph per layer.
You can always test your font by typing a text into the field at the bottom of the SVG Font Editor dialog and looking at the preview above it.

Example with a icon font

Library

https://github.com/typekit/webfontloader

Documentation / Reference