boldface

From bold +‎ face.

boldface (countable and uncountable, plural boldfaces)

1. (typography) A font that is dark, having a high ratio of ink to white space, written or drawn with thick strong lines.

boldface (third-person singular simple present boldfaces, present participle boldfacing, simple past and past participle boldfaced)

1. To print or write in a boldfaced font.

   Synonyms: bold, embolden

   Coordinate terms: italicize, strike through, underline

   Boldface the due date so they are sure to see it.

• unboldface

boldface (comparative more boldface, superlative most boldface)

1. Synonym of boldfaced.
   • 1975, Fair Trade Laws: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Fourth Congress, First Session, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 34:

     While the retailer talks about savings of 10 percent off on every item in stock in very boldface type, there is a fine line that indicates at the bottom of the ad, “with the exception of a few fair trade items.”

   • 1985, Carole Boggs Matthews, Martin S. Matthews, Word Processing for the IBM PC and PCjr and Compatible Computers, McGraw-Hill Book Company, →ISBN, page 396:

     If you make a word boldface, it is boldface on the screen.

   • 2001, Richard A. Lord, A Treatise on the Law of Contracts, West Group, page 480:

     ([…]; although it was boldface, it did not stand out because all the type on the label was bold).

   • 2005, Leigh E. Zeitz, Keyboarding Made Simple, Made Simple Books:

     It is boldface and placed next to the left margin.

   • 2021, Zhiwei Xu, Jialin Zhang, Computational Thinking: A Perspective on Computer Science, Springer Nature Singapore, →ISBN, page 192:

     Unicode is constrained. It focuses on one essential task: encoding the world’s writing systems, or character sets. It ignores issues such as the font, the size, the alignment of the character, whether it is boldface or italic, etc.

   • 2024 September 26, Paul Krugman, “The Tech Bro Style in American Politics”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     Musk’s right-wing turn isn’t universal or even typical: Reporting suggests that even with the rightward turn of several boldface names, Silicon Valley remains heavily Democratic.

     (Can we archive this URL?)

   • 2025 July 19, Alan Feuer, Matthew Goldstein, “Inside the Long Friendship Between Trump and Epstein”, in The New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     There were lavish dinners with boldface names at Mr. Epstein’s mansion on the Upper East Side and raucous parties with cheerleaders and models at Mr. Trump’s private club and residence at Mar-a-Lago.

     (Can we archive this URL?)

• non-boldface

• italic