hint

/hɪnt/

A clue.

I needed a hint to complete the crossword.

A tacit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.

He gave me a hint that my breath smelt.

A small, barely detectable amount of.

I could taste a hint of lemon in the wine.

Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should be distorted in order to produce, at specific sizes, a visually appealing pixel-based rendering. Also known as hinting.

This font does not scale well; at small point sizes it has no hinting at all, and the hints that it has for the 10- and 12-point letter 'g' still need work.

An opportunity; occasion; fit time.