Printed visible fonts with attendant background

A printing system apparatus having electronically stored in memory thereupon an electronic data font representation comprising:

• a first halftone;
• a second halftone;
• a bitmapped foreground font character representation having a font body image shape;
• and,
• a background field area bitmap suitably sized and arranged for encompassing the font body image shape, where the first halftone is applied to the foreground font character representation and the second halftone is applied to fill the background field area.

An electronically stored font representation residing in memory for use in a printing system comprising:

• a first halftone having a first anisotropic structure orientation;
• a second halftone having a second anisotropic structure orientation;
• a bitmapped foreground font character representation having a font body image shape;
• and,
• a background field area bitmap suitably sized and arranged for encompassing the font body image shape, where the first halftone is applied to the foreground font character representation and the second halftone is applied to fill the background field area.

An electronically stored font representation in memory for use in a printing system comprising:

• a first halftone having a first phase structure;
• a second halftone having a second phase structure shifted from the phase of the first halftone;
• a bitmapped foreground font character representation having a font body image shape;
• and,
• a background field area bitmap suitably sized and arranged for encompassing the font body image shape, where the first halftone is applied to the foreground font character representation and the second halftone is applied to fill the background field area.