Whats the difference between type families, typefaces and fonts?
A type family is just that — a family or collection of type that carries the same name, for example, Ballardvale. Some type families are extensive with dozens of variation names like italic, condensed, extended, light, book, ultra, alternate and many others. A typeface is a single style variation in a type family such as light, bold, condensed or outline. In the past, the term font has referred to the set of characters of a typeface (letters, numerals, punctuation and symbols) in a given size. In today’s world of desktop publishing, the term font has evolved to mean the same as typeface.
