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 term s
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.
Times RomanTimes ItalicItalic 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.
ITC Avant Garde Roman
ITC Avant Garde Oblique
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.