Fonts
In typography, a typeface consists of a co-ordinated set of grapheme (i.e., character) designs. A typeface is usually comprised of an alphabet of letters, numerals, and punctuation marks. Helvetica, Century Schoolbook, and Courier are three examples of typefaces. A typeface may also include or consist of ideograms and symbols (e.g., mathematical or map-making glyphs). The art of designing typefaces, called type design, is the occupation of a type designer.
In metal type, the word font denoted a complete typeface in a particular size (usually measured in points), one weight (e.g., light, book, bold, black), and one orientation or angle (e.g. roman, italic, oblique). As regards digital type, the font is the computer file that stores the vector paths, before they are brought into being on a screen or a page. Digital fonts do contain unlimited (or application-limited) sizes. Some applications can create additional weights or orientations of a font automatically, but these are not considered typographically correct as human intervention is required to make these adjustments well.
A font family is a group of related fonts which vary only in weight, orientation, width, etc. For examples, Times is a font family, whereas Times Roman, Times Italic and Times Bold are each fonts. Most font families contain a handful of fonts, though some (e.g. Zapf Dingbats) may contain only one, and others (e.g. Helvetica) may contain dozens of fonts.
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