There’s actually a history to the change in terminology, and it’s mostly because of Steve Jobs and the Apple Macintosh.
They were largely focused on bringing many character styles over to their new-at-the-time system, and apparently thought it would save pixel space on their limited size 512 pixel wide menu if they just called ‘Typeface’ as simply ‘Font’
But language evolves
There’s actually a history to the change in terminology, and it’s mostly because of Steve Jobs and the Apple Macintosh.
They were largely focused on bringing many character styles over to their new-at-the-time system, and apparently thought it would save pixel space on their limited size 512 pixel wide menu if they just called ‘Typeface’ as simply ‘Font’
And so it came to be, and it stuck.