不親切な用語解説--「font」その5

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• Font (in British it is so pronounced, but spelt fount) is a type founder's term of quantity: the total number of letters and other items needed for a particular purpose, capitals, lowercase, numerals, punctuation marks, ligatures, monetary signs, and so on. The font needed for the composition of a telephone directory, with its several kinds of numerals, is different from the font needed for the setting of a novel. Font is not another word for type face or design, as some writers have thought ― Stanley Morison, for one.
  The strip of negative film on which the characters are arranged in some photo-composition machines is called a font. The term is also used for the sets of degitised characters in more recent systems. Because of the international marketing of such systems the four-letter spelling of the word (which was the original form, according to an editor's note in Moxon's Mechanick Exercises, second edition 1962) is becoming familiar in Britain and Europe. It is used in this book.

Letters of Credit: A View of Type Design

• Strictly speaking, a font is a set of characters in one size and style ― for example, Garamond Roman, 12 pts. A typeface is a family of related fonts in a range of sizes ― for example, Garamond Roman, Italic and Bold, in sizes 8, 10, 12 and 14 pts. However, most typographers use the terms ‘font’ and ‘typeface’ interchangeably.

Designing Type

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