[OpenFontLibrary] Site terminology: Fonts/Typefaces

Dave Crossland dave at lab6.com
Tue May 12 15:10:41 PDT 2009


Hi,

At the LGM2009 Nicolas and I had some discussions about the OFLB
terminology, and I thought I'd raise these points on the list for
wider discussion.

One of the terms was the Fonts/Typefaces distinction.

Nicolas felt that the current v2 site uses the term "typefaces" too
much (I hope you can explain here why) and I feel that since people
who make new fonts/typefaces talk about themselves as typeface
designers and talk about typefaces, we should "speak their language"
as much as possible; and that the distinction between the two is quite
a fine detail and its okay to refer to each as the other when not
talking precisely.

What do you think?

Cheers,
Dave


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