FontsInUse, 28 days ago

@eWalthert It’s all fonts! (directly or indirectly)

eWalthert, 28 days ago

@FontsInUse Right, lettering is the wrong term here. Thanks for #fontID them this quick.
I was mainly wondering about Solange.

FontsInUse, 28 days ago

@eWalthert You’re welcome! Vaméa probably is a font, too, but I failed to find it – too many of those quirky serifs.

Some folks use “lettering” as an umbrella term for all things involving letters (with type being a subcategory), and that’s fair. And some of the examples fall under what we tag as “lettering derived from typeface”, a.k.a. fonts in indirect use. https://fontsinuse.com/tags/853/lettering-derived-from-typeface

jerry1970, 28 days ago

@eWalthert @FontsInUse Especially for people with English as a second language (like me), the distinction between terms like lettering, type, font, and font face are hard to understand. Perhaps a post on these (and perhaps an explanation on related terms like serif, slab, stem, etc.) might be useful. I would find it useful, for sure.

typographica, 28 days ago

@jerry1970 @eWalthert https://typenetwork.com/articles/lettering-is-not-type#

FontsInUse, 24 days ago

@jerry1970 Stephen’s article covers lettering vs. type and font vs. typeface. He also has a useful diagram (from a whole book) about type anatomy terms like serif, see https://typeanatomy.com/post/640694338958000129/type-anatomy-in-six-letters-ever-since-the-book
More about Latin type anatomy by Typomil https://typomil.com/anatomy/index.html and @elliotjaystocks https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/introducing_type/an_overview_of_latin_type_anatomy

Unlike font and typeface, “font-face” is not a term commonly used to discuss type. Rather, it’s exclusively used in CSS to specify fonts in websites:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@font-face