Typographers have developed a comprehensive vocabulary for describing the many aspects of typefaces and typography. Some vocabulary applies only to a subset of all scrips. Serifs, for example, are a purely decorative characteristic of typefaces used for European scripts, whereas the glyphs used in Arabic or East Asian scripts have characteristics (such as stroke width) that may be similar in some respects but cannot reasonably be called serifs and may not be purely decorative.
Typeface: A typeface (also known as font family) is a set of one or more fonts each composed of glyphs that share common design features. Each font of a typeface has a specific weight, style, condensation, width etc…
For example, 'ITC Garamond Bold Condensed Italic' is a different font from 'ITC Garamond Condensed Italic' and "ITC Garamond Bold Condensed," but all are fonts within the same typeface.
Font: A font is a particular size, weight and style of a typeface. Each font was a matched set of metal, and a typeface comprised a range of fonts that shared an overall design.
Typefaces can be divided into two main categories: Serif and Sans Serifs comprise the small features at the end of strokes within letters. The printing industry refers to typeface without serifs as Sans Serif (from French sans, meaning without),
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| Oblique is a form of type that slants slightly to the right, used in the same manner a italic type Unlike italic type, however, it does not use different shapes of the a character; it uses the same glyphs as roman type, except distorted. Oblique and italic type are technical terms to distinguish between the two ways of creating slanted font styles; oblique designs may be labelled italic by companies selling fonts or by computer programmes. |
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