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In typography, a typeface consists of a coordinated set of glyphs designed with stylistic unity. A typeface usually comprises an alphabet of letters, numerals, and punctuation marks. A typeface may also include ideograms and symbols, or consist entirely of them, for example, mathematical or map-making symbols. The term typeface is often conflated with font, a term which, historically, had a number of distinct meanings prior to the advent of desktop publishing; these terms are now effectively synonymous when discussing digital typography.The art and craft of designing typefaces is called type design, and the people who design them are called type designers—not typographers. Typographers are responsible for the layout of the printed word on the page. The typesetter (compositor in hot metal) sets and arranges the type in the position indicated. In digital typography, type designers are also known as font developers or font designers.
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