Font & Typeface

"Font
The physical means of typeface production. A Set of type of one particular face and size.

Typeface
A group of characters, numbers, symbols and punction which have the same distinct style. A particular design of type.



Pictured is a typewrighter whose keys constitute a font, that is, the physical means of printion letters onto a substrate. The letters produced are a type face.

This is not a font, it's a type face."

(Ref: The visual Dictionary of graphic design, Ambrose & Harris 2006)