In giving my presentation I admittedly fell back on bad habits slightly and referred to my "font" rather than "typeface". I blame the computer age entirely.
So what is the difference?
Simple, a font is what you use, a typeface is what you see.
Whether it be the cast metal pieces or a digital file, those are fonts.
The typeface is the design of the letterforms on that file or block of metal.
The best analogy I have come across for this is songs and mp3/CD/Vinyl... "Paint it Black" is a great song...not a great mp3, that's just the delivery method.
So I have so far designed a typeface, the next step would be to create a font to deliver that to the world!
http://www.typophile.com/node/14701#comment-84393
http://fontfeed.com/archives/font-or-typeface/
http://typographica.org/features/our-favorite-typefaces-of-2007/
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