Under what circumstances is it more cromulenter to use “font,” and when is “face” preferred?
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The cromulence is that a typeface describes a family of fonts
Typeface – Helvetica
Fonts (within the typeface) – Helvetica Roman (Regular); Helvetica Italic; Helvetica Bold; Helvetica Bold Italic &c.
Fonts also describe sizes, Helvetica Roman 12pt is a different font to Helvetica Roman 11pt – but this is (almost) archaic, relating to hand-setting when you kept the metal sorts in individual trays. And woe betide you if they were mixed up.
TBH the difference is only appreciated by typophiles, using either typeface/face and font is common and nobody but the most punctilious will raise their hackles.
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Mind your p’s and q’s!
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And mind your feet, those trays are heavy!
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Thank you! I shall avoid those who are punctilious fontwise!
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(Full disclosure: I stole this link from Rob at TOP.)
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I’m way more interested in your post since it crucially mentions Towa Tei (of Dee Lite fame,) than the TOP post, which only mentions Minogue and her early career in a soap opera; which is about as boring as it sounds. Tei, on the other hand, is the man.
edit: Tei (Japanese) commissions a japanese designer to create a font for his album, and gets Minogue (Australian) to sing about it, and names the font German Bold Italic.
okay…
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I had to look it up.
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Here’s a word for you: Druckfehlerteufelchen.
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Or if you don’t do German, you can go with the Finnish equivalent: painovirhepaholainen.
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Druckfehlerteufelchen ist böse.
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Painovirhepaholainen on paha.
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A competition to make ambigrams from the Typophile days, lots of swashes to sort of make it work – gadzooks.
The Frutiger numbering system (another Typophile competition, they weren’t really competitive just a bit of fun)
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I wonder when the English J acquired its soft G sound, rather than being a Y sound…
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Yes, revolutionary…
Nicely done, though.
Mornington Crescent!
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