#desktop publishing

• Bold — A typeface or font style characterized by thick, pronounced, and heavy strokes, used in typography and computer desktop publishing to emphasize headings, keywords, or important passages within a text; colloquially known as 'bold'. As an adjective, it describes a text or character printed with this heavy type.
• Bold characters — The plural form for feminine nouns and adjectives in the typographic field; it refers either to bold characters (aldine letters) or to the entirety of the rare and precious books issued from Aldo Manuzio's printing house in Venice, prized by collectors for outstanding paper quality, font clarity, and philological rigor.