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"Headlines are still set by hand."

I now understand where the word "typesetting" comes from.

Alot of font terms comes from that time, like leading and kerning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning

Interestingly, the term "font" itself came from the fact that typefaces were cast.

"Font" originally described a size, weight, and face. It no longer includes a concept of size, because digital typesetting allows sizes to be changed so easily. What we refer to as a "font" today was originally referred to as a "typeface," that is, the general style of the lettering.

This explains too how sometimes you see a list of every combination of every "font" in a list and other times you see every font and can configure them.

Likely some confusion around this in the documentation and in programmers who implement these features.

I had a similar thought when they were talking about reading the "galley proofs" and finding errors which were then corrected before the final edition: "Aha! 'Proofreading!'"

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