[OpenFontLibrary] Site terminology: Fonts/Typefaces

[Jon Phillips]

I will just say that most people think of is fonts. So good to use right
terms, but also important to consider commaner.

Jon Phillips
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On May 12, 2009 5:27 PM, "Ben Weiner" <ben at readingtype.org.uk> wrote:

Hi

Dave Crossland wrote: > > At the LGM2009 Nicolas and I had some discussions
about the OFLB > termi...
I agree with the foregoing, but here is an explanation.

Believe it or not, the use of 'Typeface' was very carefully considered, at
least when we were thinking about the style and editorial tone of the OFLB.
I think we largely succeeded in carrying our decisions through to the site
pages and the new wiki docs.

'Typeface' refers to all the members of a visually related font family, so
the ccHost 'upload' page became a 'Typeface record' because users are
encouraged to produce multiple weights - a family, in other words - and
upload them to the same typeface record.

Typically the members of the family (each of which would traditionally have
been called a 'fount' or 'font') are regular/Roman, bold, italic, etc. There
could be different scripts in the family too; as long as they share a common
visual style, and by implication a common origin.

When we talk about 'fonts' on OFLB we should be referring to the files in
which the typeface family members are encoded. Font files can now contain
any number of typeface family members, so perhaps these multi-member files
should be called 'typeface files' instead.

Cheers,
Ben

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