"Glyph" refers to the shape of a single character (letter, Chinese character, symbol, etc.).
The so-called "typeface" and "font" are both proper terms in the fields of typography and calligraphy. Non-professionals in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Mainland China, Europe and the United States cannot distinguish between "typeface" and "font" as professional terms.
Font refers to a set of fonts with the same style and size; typeface is a collection of one or more fonts in one or more sizes.
There is no universal translation for typeface and font in various Chinese regions. Mainland China's national standard (GB/T 16964.1-1997, the official translation of international standards) translates typeface as "font name" and font as "font style". Taiwanese professionals also translate typeface as "font". Generally, typeface can be translated as "font" and font as "font".
Seal script, official script, Yan style, regular script, cursive script, Song style, imitation Song style, Hei style, etc. are respectively a collection of many fonts of a certain similar style (also called "calligraphy"), rather than one type. font. The regular script written by the two calligraphers can be called two fonts; Song style has fonts such as Zhongyi Song style and Xinxi Ming style on the computer.
Around the 1990s, font databases stored on computers were gradually conventionally called "computer fonts" by English speakers, although the original meaning of "font" in the field of typography and calligraphy is not the same as the one used here. Not a very good match. For the "font" in "computer font", the translations are different in mainland China and Taiwan and Hong Kong, which are computer "font" and computer "font" respectively. With the advent of scalable vector computer fonts, the line between "typeface" and "font" is gradually blurring.