I’ve thought that ‘font’ is the digital file of a typeface. Then I was reading the recent article in NY Times Magazine about Clearview, and the author Joshua Yaffa uses the words font and typeface as if they mean the same thing. So what is it? Not that Adobe is the authority, but this is how their type glossary define ‘font’:

One weight, width, and style of a typeface. Before scalable type, there was little distinction between the terms font, face, and family. Font and face still tend to be used interchangeably, although the term face is usually more correct.

I’m confused.