Typeface vs. Font

Typefacenoun

(typography) The particular design of some type, font, or a font family.

Typefacenoun

(printing) The surface of type which inked, or the impression it makes.

Typefacenoun

a specific size and style of type within a type family

Typeface

A typeface is the design of lettering that can include variations in size, weight (e.g. bold), slope (e.g.

Fontnoun

A receptacle in a church for holy water - especially one used in baptism

Fontnoun

A receptacle for oil in a lamp.

Fontnoun

(figuratively) spring, source, fountain

Fontnoun

(typography) A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters.

Fontnoun

In metal typesetting, a set of type sorts in one size.

Fontnoun

In phototypesetting, a set of patterns forming glyphs of any size, or the film they are stored on.

Fontnoun

In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.

Fontnoun

(computing) A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer.

Fontnoun

(figuratively) A source, wellspring, fount.

Fontnoun

A complete assortment of printing type of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing with that variety of types; a fount.

Fontnoun

A fountain; a spring; a source.

Fontnoun

A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing.

Fontnoun

a specific size and style of type within a type family

Fontnoun

bowl for baptismal water

Fontnoun

a receptacle in a church for the water used in baptism, typically a free-standing stone structure.

Fontnoun

a reservoir for oil in an oil lamp.

Fontnoun

a source of a desirable quality or commodity; a fount

Fontnoun

a set of type of one particular face and size

Font

In metal typesetting, a font was a particular size, weight and style of a typeface. Each font was a matched set of type, with a piece (a ) for each glyph, and a typeface consisting of a range of fonts that shared an overall design.