A Font...or Typeface?

We've all heard of fonts before, and we used them constantly - whether you're texting someone, writing an essay or even as you're reading this. Fonts are used everywhere, but there's more to it than we know.

A typeface is actually a particular design of type, which makes font a certain size, weight and style of a typeface.

Confused, yet?

Let me explain.

A typeface is a design of type (like I said previously), which means that 'New Times Roman' and 'Arial' are typefaces.

The dropdown bar to the left is a selection of certain typefaces, but there are still many more.

Fonts are different to typefaces, but they are still linked, as it's when you vary a typeface it becomes a font. This is when you use tools such as bold, italics, bold italics, and normal; the list goes on. So a font is a type of typeface.

I feel like I've said type way too often now.