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by ars 5195 days ago
> In selecting a typeface, you're also necessarily selecting the font

No, the reverse of that. A typeface of the overall look, a font specifies the size and things like bold, italic.

So what is commonly called the font is really the typeface, and what is called the size is actually the font.

Back when fonts of a specific size were physical thing this mattered a lot - you only had a limited number of fonts for each typeface.

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Typeface plus size plus bold/italic/etc is the font.