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Adobe ventures into open fonts

Adobe ventures into open fonts

Posted Aug 13, 2012 17:11 UTC (Mon) by davelab6 (guest, #86237)
In reply to: Adobe ventures into open fonts by vonbrand
Parent article: Adobe ventures into open fonts

The italic style was first used in small books, but the entire text was set in that style.

Today italics are meant to be visually distinctive and the lighter 'color' is one - important - way that type designers do this.

So I learned at the University of Reading's Typeface Design Masters programme :)

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Adobe ventures into open fonts

Posted Jan 14, 2013 8:33 UTC (Mon) by pauldhunt (guest, #88795) [Link]

What David said. Particularly in sanserif styles, it is more difficult to distinguish an italic meant for emphasis if the sole differentiation comes from the slope of the glyph forms. Making the italic somewhat lighter in color helps it to serve its purpose of differentiation from the upright style.


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