Font: What most users will think every definition on this page refers to. In traditional typography, a font is a particular size, weight and style of a typeface. Each font was a matched set of metal type, one piece (called a “sort”) for each glyph, and a typeface comprised a range of fonts that shared an overall design. In modern usage, with the advent of digital typography, “font” is frequently synonymous with “typeface”, although the two terms do not necessarily mean the same thing.
Typeface aka Font Family: A set of one or more fonts each composed of glyphs that share common design features. Each font of a typeface has a specific weight, style, condensation, width, slant, italicization, ornamentation, and designer.
Generic Font Family: The broader class of families that a particular font family falls into, such as: serif, sans-serif, cursive, symbol, monospace, and fantasy.
Font Style: The 'font-style' property selects between regular (aka “roman” or “upright”), italic/oblique faces within a font family. Oblique styles indicate slanted styles generated from the normal style, where as italic styles are individually designed. Cyrious Online requires the regular style be present for any custom font uploaded.
Font Format: This refers to the of the internal file structure for recording how the font displays each character. The following font types are supported: TrueType Fonts (TTF), TrueType Collections (TTC), and coming soon, OpenType Fonts (OTF).
Font Variant: Other alternative font display options (e.g. Small Caps) are referred to as Font Variants. Font Variants are not supported in Cyrious Online.
Font Weight: The weight of the font, ranging from 100 - 900. Other valid values include normal (400), bold (700), bolder (increases inherited value), lighter (decreases inherited value), and inherit. Only normal and bold font weights are supported in Cyrious Online.
Example: The "Arial Black" font can be treated as a different font family, or as a member of the Arial font family with a bold font weight. In Cyrious Online, Arial Black is only supported as a unique font family and is not directly associated with the Arial font family.