Font vs Typeface – Piggynap’s Ignorance On The Subject

Last night Frog asked me “what’s the difference between a font and a typeface?” and my answer was a long silence then… “I dunno!”. A font is the style of text that you choose in Word…like Times New Roman, or Arial, right? A typeface is also a style of text, right? So what’s the difference?

Frog explains the difference between a font and a typeface…

A Typeface Is: the design of the type – a set of letters and numbers in a specific style.

A Font Is: the digital file that tells your computer what the typeface should look like when you use it.

There you have it! My education is complete

While we’re on the subject, here’s something I found ages ago – you can turn your handwriting into a font through a service like YourFonts…pretty neat huh?

Edit: Here’s something even cooler – scans of the whole of Modern Alphabets, 1864 – on Flickr.