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paulddraper on Oct 25, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS

Traditionally, font is just the shape of the characters (size, weight, italics). Other things (alignment, underline, wrap, color).

This is because "fonts" were originally physical typesetting blocks.

Some designers go further and say font refers only to the files and file formats; other things are the "typeface".

einr on Oct 25, 2018 [–]

I believe the traditional usage is something like this: Helvetica is a typeface, Helvetica Bold Italic is a font.

taejo on Oct 25, 2018 | [–]

Almost: Helvetica is a typeface family, Helvetica Bold Italic is a typeface, Helvetica Bold Italic 10pt is a font (or rather, the font is a case full of bits of metal with Helvetica Bold Italic 10pt)

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