There’s actually a history to the change in terminology, and it’s mostly because of Steve Jobs and the Apple Macintosh. They were largely focused on bringing many character styles over to their new-at-the-time system, and apparently thought it would save pixel space on their limited size 512 pixel wide menu if they just called ‘Typeface’ as simply ‘Font’
over_clox@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
There’s actually a history to the change in terminology, and it’s mostly because of Steve Jobs and the Apple Macintosh. They were largely focused on bringing many character styles over to their new-at-the-time system, and apparently thought it would save pixel space on their limited size 512 pixel wide menu if they just called ‘Typeface’ as simply ‘Font’