roman font

noun3

1. •
   A font that is upright, as opposed to oblique or italic.

   • It will automatically reduce the size of the subscripts identified by “sub” and will choose italic or roman fonts for the remaining characters as appropriate. — 1988
2. •
   An oldstyle serif font or typeface (sometimes capitalized "Roman").

   • The Roman fonts of Aldus were eclipsed by his Italic and Greek, but he cut several fine alphabets. — 1897
3. •
   A font supporting the characters of the Latin alphabet.

   • Although 1 byte is all that is needed for Roman fonts, 2 bytes are needed for other character sets. — 1992