https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170497
Natalie <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #1 from Natalie <[email protected]> --- Created attachment 207502 --> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=207502&action=edit Screenshot of Typeface whish should probably be style. Typeface is used incorrectly. Typeface is the design not a form of design. Font’s meaning has shifted. Microsoft Word uses a secondary dropdown when choosing a font to subselect the style. Libre Writer doesn’t present the style or subset of font choice and takes a workaround to properly select. Bold, Italic, are likely a shift that isnt part of the true font. Libre Writer Font Feedback typeface | ˈtīpˌfās | noun Printing a particular design of type: you're reading a typeface called Dutch | [mass noun] : a huge choice of typeface. font 2 | fänt | (British English also fount | fount |) noun Printing a set of type of one particular face and size: written material in a variety of fonts and formats. The Meanings Revolved and Shifted Based on the historical record, the meanings of "font" and "typeface" didn't truly reverse, but rather shifted significantly with changes in printing technology. This is a nuanced distinction that's worth clarifying. The Traditional Meanings (Pre-Digital Era) In classical typography, the terms had distinct meanings: Typeface referred to the design itself—the visual and aesthetic characteristics of a set of letters. It was the abstract idea: "Helvetica" or "Times Roman" as a design system. Font referred to a specific, physical implementation of that typeface. In the metal type era, a font was a complete set of cast metal characters in one specific size and weight. So "12-point Helvetica Bold" and "10-point Helvetica Bold" were different fonts, even though they shared the same typeface design. The Wikipedia article explains it this way: historically, "a font came from a type foundry as a set of 'sorts', with a number of copies of each character included." If you needed text in a different size, you literally needed a different physical font. What Changed with Digital Typography >From the mid-1980s onward, the meanings shifted dramatically because digital fonts became scalable. A single digital font file could render text at any size, which meant the old distinction between "font" (size-specific) and "typeface" (the design) no longer made practical sense. The Wikipedia article notes: "From the mid-1980s, as digital typography has grown, users have almost universally adopted the American spelling 'font,' which has come to primarily refer to a computer file containing scalable outline letterforms in digital font." In everyday usage today, people often use "font" and "typeface" interchangeably, even though typographic professionals still maintain the technical distinction. The term "font" expanded to mean both the design and the digital file that implements it. So rather than meanings reversing, what happened was a blurring and broadening of the term "font" due to technological change, while the more formal term "typeface" remained more precise in professional contexts. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
