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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