the reason font menus are called font menus and not typeface menus dates back to when computers used raster fonts and had limited memory. You didn't load typefa

the reason font menus are called font menus and not typeface menus dates back to when computers used raster fonts and had limited memory. You didn't load typefaces, you loaded the typeface/size/styles that you needed and had memory for, literally the fonts. Since that's the language people learned, that's what's in the UI