What is the difference between a “Single” fonts and a “Family” font?
Most of the fonts from Linotype are arranged in Mac OS and/or Windows either as “families” or as “single fonts, ” independent of whether you are using PostScript, TrueType or OpenType format fonts. Family font: A family font is part of a group of fonts, whose styles (e.g., Roman, Italic, Bold and Bold-Italic) are linked together. Clicking the according style button will load the appropriate font. Unlike on the Macintosh, font styles are classified in “families” under Windows. A type family can contain a maximum of four members – e.g. “Regular”, “Italic”, “Bold” and “Bold Italic”. One of these is specified as the default font. Only this default font appears in the Font menus of application programs. The three other variations are linked to the default font and are only activated by selecting the font styles “Italic”, “Bold” and “Bold Italic”. Single font: Fonts that do not have links to other fonts and appear separately in the font menu of applications are called “single” fonts. Styles
