On Oct 23, 2006, at 1:26 PM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
Also, my answer was informed by my something I observed when consulting a reprint of an old edition (I think 1896) of the ATF typeface catalog by Garland Press, and by a difference in word usage. Where we use the word font somewhat loosely today to mean a collection of characters designed to have a cohesive use, this is not the standard printer's term used for that; in most instances what we today call a "font", a printer would have called a "typeface", and the printer would have used the word "font" to refer to a quantity of type of a particular typeface.
The definition hasn't changed. People in the type business still make the same distinction. Even with computer fonts there are still differences between different fonts of the same typeface -- for example, a newer font might have kerning values built in while an older font does not.
If there's a "difference in word usage", that's just a polite way of saying that the general public generally gets it wrong.
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