Font And Typeface

So what's the difference? It turns out it's pretty tough to find out, as different sources have told me different things. However this seems to be the right one...hopefully.

TYPEFACE is the STYLE of the words, like inescapable boring wrath of New Times Roman or the dreaded Comic Sans. It could be seen as a family tree.

FONT is the things you can ADD to these. Their DIFFERENCES. Using the family tree analogy, it is like the children, who are different from biological parents. This could be using italics, or becoming more condensed, and the menagerie of other things you can do nowadays.

Arial BLACK is a font. Arial is a TYPEFACE.

These 2 are found in Bath

These 2 are from Germany

These 2 are from Russia

What is the difference between Serif and Sans-Serif?

Serif is when you have extra flourishes, and fancy things added to letters. Sans-Serif has none of these.

"Leading determines the amount of space between lines in a paragraph. Tracking is the spacing between characters in a line of text. Kerning increases or decreases the spacing between certain pairs of. letters, like AV, which look better if their boxes overlap slightly."

Leading is the space of the lines between different lines of text.

like this

"tracking (letter-spacing) adjusts spacing uniformly over a range of characters. In a well-kerned font, the two-dimensional blank spaces between each pair of characters all have a visually similar area."

In english that means, Tracking is the spaces of letters in one word, kerning is to change the space between induvidual letters.

The grid is a grid used to organise content. It makes it easier to see differences between characters, and spot different parts of the letter.