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by adrian_b
4 days ago
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True, but following the early documentation from around 1990, from companies like Microsoft, most programmers use the term "font" even when they should say "typeface". Many of those who know the difference between "font" and "typeface", still use "font" when addressing to programmers or to computer users, for fear that those would not understand other words. In TFA, the uses of the word "font" are correct, e.g. in "The 6x13, 8x13, 9x15, 9x18, and 10x20 fonts", because it is used to refer to typefaces scaled to a certain fixed size (e.g. "Tahoma" is a typeface, while "12-point Tahoma" is a font). The word "typeface" is used once in TFA, also correctly, when saying that whether typefaces may be copyrightable depends on the country. |
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