Glyph: The appearance of a single character.
Font: that is, the character type (such as writing style), or font, is a collection of glyphs with the same appearance style (style) and the same typesetting size (word width, word height and line spacing). Note: as far as "style" (style category) is concerned, it is a type; Figuratively speaking, it is a set.
Typeface: refers to the collection of various fonts, especially the collection of fonts with the same appearance style but different typesetting sizes.
Seal script, official script, strict style, regular script, cursive script, song style, imitation song style, bold type, etc. It is a collection of many fonts of a similar style (also called "calligraphy style"), not a font. The regular script written by two calligraphers can be called two fonts; There are fonts such as Zhong Yi Songti and Xin Xiaoming on the computer.
Around the 1990s, the font stored on the computer was gradually called "computer font" by English users, although the original meaning of "font" in printing and calligraphy was not quite consistent with that used here.
As for "computer font", Chinese mainland and Taiwan Province Province have different translations, namely "computer font" and "computer font". With the appearance of scalable vector computer fonts, the boundary between "fonts" and "fonts" is gradually blurred.