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, [...]

I’ve always wondered, and thanks to Dwayne, now I know.
Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more [...]

From Junk English, by Ken Smith: “Focus on is by far the most capacious stuffing phrase in modern American Idiom. It has been substituting, incorrectly, for many words and phrases.”
Examples - discuss (Let’s focus on that issue), keep in mind (The latter figure is the one the administration wants us to focus on), satisfy [...]