ITC Avant Garde Roman ITC Avant Garde Oblique
Times Roman Times Italic

About

Typefaces and

Fonts

Stroke Weight

Palatin o

Palatin o

Stoke weight (light/medium/bold) is the width (thickness), of the lines (strokes) that make up a character. The example at left shows the medium and bold weights of Palatino.

Italic and Oblique Forms

Italic was originally developed in the early sixteenth century as a typeface based on cursive handwriting. Today’s italics are still individually crafted typefaces

designed to blend with a specific roman (upright) typeface.

Oblique (or slanted) type forms, however, are not designed and crafted

individually but are mechanically slanted versions of the roman form from which they derive.

Orientation

Orientation is the direction of the print or image on a page. Portrait orientation reads from left to right, across the narrower dimension of the page. Landscape orientation also reads from left to right but places the print across the wider dimension of the page. Spreadsheet and table applications commonly use landscape printing. Both terms

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