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Article #3238Italics vs. Oblique fonts, was (Re: Helvetica)
From: Richard Sexton
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1989 02:53
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1989 02:53
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In article <1989Jan23.144822.29002@cs.rochester.edu> ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) writes:
>> Helvetica Italics aren't half bad at all...
>
>Small nit: it's Helvetica Oblique. Italics are for serif fonts.
Is this really true ? I thought that Italics were a very old idea,
and were basically a curvy character different from the ``original''
face, while oblique was less than 100 year old, and was just slanted
versions of the ``original'' face. I never saw any reference to
serif vs. sans-serif fonts. Another thing to perhaps back this
up is that Times-Roman oblique != Times-Italics.
??
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!elroy!gryphon!richard From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) Newsgroups: comp.fonts Subject: Italics vs. Oblique fonts, was (Re: Helvetica) Message-ID: <11122@gryphon.COM> Date: 24 Jan 89 02:53:15 GMT References: <1603@csuna.UUCP> <1989Jan23.144822.29002@cs.rochester.edu> Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) Distribution: na Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 18