chapter 3 About Typefaces
When you look at a printed page, you see type. How the letters of that type
are shaped and proportioned reflects the design qualities of a specific typeface.
Those designs are stored, embodied, in a font, from which the typesetting
system extracts the information needed to get that type onto the page. Fonts
and typefaces are the basic raw materials of typesetting. This chapter compares
the two and describes in detail what typefaces are, what’s in them, and how
they work. Chapter 4 describes fonts.
Definitions: Font versus Typeface
No two words in typography are as commonly misused as font and typeface. A
typeface is a col ...
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