To avoid confusion here, we’ll stick with ‘font’. Feel free to use that bit of design trivia to wow your friends at your next dinner party. For example, if Garamond is the typeface Garamond, 13pt, bold is the font. ‘Font’ is the word you use when you’re talking about a specific size and style of a typeface.
But first we want to impart some design trivia: ‘Typeface’ is the word you use when you’re talking about letters. People have been designing and studying typefaces for centuries, so there’s a lot to say on the subject.
If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.” In his 2005 commencement address at Stanford, Jobs said, “It was the first computer with beautiful typography. The subject fed his inspiration for the Mac. Steve Jobs learned this when he sat in on a calligraphy class in college. A big part of your total visual package in your business PowerPoint presentation is the font you choose. If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ll know we’re always talking about the importance of visuals.