Marlow’s Listener

There is no consensus, but the overall opinion is that in today’s world of digital typography ‘a typeface’ means the general design, including all its styles, regardless of how it’s instantiated, while ‘a font’ means a single style of a typeface, such as Myriad bold condensed italic, in a specific file format.

The reason was a fear of immodesty, born of the injunction that wasps shouldn’t “make a show” of themselves. It was all right for me to explain the decisions that other writers made, but not the ones I had made. Only gradually did that affectation strike me as foolish. I would find myself remembering some [...]

Which do you want? That one!

Debate continues
There is another, invisible punctuation rule that is blissfully free of any semantic baggage: the second space after . : and ?
Passionate defenders of the rule go so far as to declare it a rule of grammar. Their opponents just do not want to see blank snakes running through their copy. It [...]

“Shakespeare created dramatic effects by implicitly taking advantage of the relative independence – at the neural level – of semantics and syntax in sentence comprehension”