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Contents:

1. FONTS
2. FONTS AND TYPEFACES
3. PRINTER DRIVERS
4. PRINTER FONTS
5. THE WINDOWS APPROACH
6. TRUETYPE FONTS
7. FINDING YOUR FONTS
8. ENTER POSTSCRIPT
9. TYPE 1 FONTS
10. FONTS AND THE WEB
11. OpenType and TrueDoc
12. FOR MORE INFORMATION

FONTS AND TYPEFACES
The terms font and typeface are often used interchangeably, but strictly speaking, that's not accurate. In traditional printing, a typeface is a particular design for a set of letters, numbers, and symbols, the whole set having a name like Garamond, Albertus, or Times Roman. A font originally meant a set of metal type pieces for a given typeface that were all of a given size.

Font sizes were measured in points, equal to 1/72nd of' an inch. A full set of type pieces for Garamond in 12 point was considered one font, a set at 36 point in Garamond was another font, and so on. In computers, the point measure is still used, though we now tend to refer to a typeface of a given style, as in Garamond, as a "font," no matter what the size.