Typeface vs Font - What's the Difference?

What other design terminology do you see people mix up that you think would make for a useful video?

I'm thinking one that covers tracking and kerning :)

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so real man

Oh now i get it! Thank you so much! 👍

V nice

Was struggling with this. Thank You.

Great Video!

Some people have a different definition. Historically, in metal type, font meant the specific size and style of each typeface, with the word 'font' coming from the physical moulds that produced the metal type. This leads to the definition of 'font' as being the software that produces the typeface. So, for example, 'I wanted to use Times (typeface) but I didn't have the font,' or more specifically, perhaps, 'I wanted to use Times for this book, but it turned out I didn't have the italic font'. In this set of definitions, Times is the printed or on-screen typeface (which refers to the roman regular weight, but often gets used generally for the family) , the Times typeface family is composed of the roman, italic, bold and bold italic styles (and whatever other designs that are part of the family). Similar but different definitions.

Thank you for the visual demonstration! This has been confusing me for YEARS! I love the album/track analogy too!

thank you !

this really help me to understand in depth :D

thanks so much mate for giving me a better understanding of typeface and fonts with easy examples.

fantastic analogy kudos boss.....

the album example is perfect!! thank u

Great video and I personally found the album vs track list analogy to be very helpful. I am a young junior designer and enjoyed this video!

wow thx for that! the minute u mentioned the album and the tracklist somthing clicked in my head!

So what about Grotesque for example. Eurostile is a typeface of Grotesque and Eurostile regular is a font. But what is Grotesque exactly? Also a typeface?

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That’s a good analogy- I can definitely remember that 👍

Intelligence is knowing the difference...wisdom, is not being the knob that interrupts someone's story to correct them

WOW!

Thanks alot

Great explanation 👌

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Amazing explanation!!!!

Thank you!! that was easy to grasp tbh

You're brilliant, thanks!!!
You squeezed an info for the rest of my life with that Album analogy :)

That Album and Songs analogy is very helpful. Thank you for explaining!

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awesome example Album & Tracks

What if the album contained only one track as in the case of mixtapes? In other words the typeface is also the font.

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Understanddd

This is so useful. Thank You so much!!

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Best explanation ever!!!

Great explanation! I feel I don't need to look anywhere else for information on this :)

Definitely, best explanation ever haha. I'm sure I won´t forget the difference between these terms. Helpful. Thanks. Greets from Panama

Thanks for this. I've been having a lot of trouble which to use between the two terms. :D Thanks!

Yes, you got that term correct! Thanks for sharing this!

Appreciate the short and sweet style combined with charisma and album artwork design. Ty m8 and have a great one :)

Excellent explanation and analogy!

Thanks, very good explained!

Nice explanation! Thank you sir!

Very easy video and I understand all Thank you so much I am glad with subscribed this channel thank you again. See you soon man !!!

I think you got mixed up between 'font' and 'type family'. What you call "font" is actually type family not font. Font is the show of typeface in one size and one style..

kerning and all tha good stuff you can do with letters :D

I think ur confusing between font and typeface style

great ! thanks !

Loved this

Thanks for the clarity! Subscribed because you're like a Scottish Steve Von Till (Neurosis)... And you design \m/