Police vs. Font — What's the Difference?

The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state, with the aim to enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers include arrest and the use of force legitimized by the state via the monopoly on violence.

In metal typesetting, a font was a particular size, weight and style of a typeface. Each font was a matched set of type, with a piece (a "sort") for each glyph, and a typeface consisting of a range of fonts that shared an overall design.

A body of government employees trained in methods of law enforcement and crime prevention and detection and authorized to maintain the peace, safety, and order of the community.

A receptacle in a church for the water used in baptism, typically a free-standing stone structure.

A body of persons with a similar organization and function

A reservoir for oil in an oil lamp.

(Archaic) Regulation and control of the affairs of a community, especially with respect to maintenance of order, law, health, morals, safety, and other matters affecting the public welfare.

A source of a desirable quality or commodity; a fount

(Informal) A group that admonishes, cautions, or reminds

A set of type of one particular face and size

The cleaning of a military base or other military area

A basin for holding baptismal water in a church.

The soldiers assigned to a specified maintenance duty.

A receptacle for holy water; a stoup.

To regulate, control, or keep in order with a law enforcement agency or other official group.

The oil reservoir in an oil-burning lamp.

To impose one's viewpoint or beliefs regarding, especially in an authoritarian way

An abundant source; a fount

To critique in a presumptuous or arrogant manner

A complete set of type of one size and face.

To make (a military area, for example) neat in appearance

(Christianity) A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.

A public agency charged with enforcing laws and maintaining public order, usually being granted special privileges to do so, particularly

A receptacle for oil in a lamp.

A department of local (usually municipal) government responsible for general law enforcement.

(figuratively) Spring, source, fountain.

(UK) A branch of the Home Office responsible for general law enforcement within a specific territory.

(typography) A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters.

Any of the formally enacted law enforcement agencies at various levels of government.

In metal typesetting, a set of type sorts in one size.

The staff of such a department or agency, particularly its officers; an individual police officer.

In phototypesetting, a set of patterns forming glyphs of any size, or the film they are stored on.

People who try to enforce norms or standards as if granted authority similar to the police.

In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.

Cleanup of a military facility, as a formal duty.

A typeface.

Synonym of administration, the regulation of a community or society.

A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer.

(obsolete) policy.

(figuratively) A source, wellspring, fount.

(obsolete) polity, civilization, a regulated community.

To overlay (text) on the picture.

(transitive) To enforce the law and keep order among (a group).

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.

To clean up an area.

A fountain; a spring; a source.

To enforce norms or standards upon.

A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing.

A judicial and executive system, for the government of a city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order, cleanliness, health, etc., and for the enforcement of the laws and prevention of crime; the administration of the laws and regulations of a city, incorporated town, or borough.

A specific size and style of type within a type family

That which concerns the order of the community; the internal regulation of a state.

Bowl for baptismal water

The organized body of civil officers in a city, town, or district, whose particular duties are the preservation of good order, the prevention and detection of crime, and the enforcement of the laws.

Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison.

The cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state a camp as to cleanliness.

To keep in order by police.

To make clean; as, to police a camp.

The force of policemen and officers;

Maintain the security of by carrying out a control