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Article #3247Re: Italic & Oblique
From: Richard Sexton
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 1989 06:58
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 1989 06:58
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In article <323@iconsys.UUCP> bryan@iconsys.UUCP (Bryan Cardoza) writes:
>In article <1989Jan23.144822.29002@cs.rochester.edu> ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) writes:
>>Small nit: it's Helvetica Oblique. Italics are for serif fonts.
>
>In article <43873@linus.UUCP> ted@mbunix (Ede) writes:
>>Correct me if I'm wrong (he says, reaching for his flame retardent
>>suit). I was told that an Oblique font was just a normal font tilted
>>(by an algorithm) a certain number of degrees and an Italic font was
>>one that was re-designed (by hand) at that angle.
>
>You were told wrong; Ken is correct according to my professional designer
>friends.
So why don't you post their names so none of us makes the mistake
of hiring them ?
(insert :-)'s until you feel better)
--
What I'd really like is a tie-dye T-shirt with a Mercedes symbol on the back.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!elroy!gryphon!richard From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) Newsgroups: comp.fonts,alt.flame,talk.bizarre Subject: Re: Italic & Oblique Keywords: no bryan, ken said he was wrong already Message-ID: <11514@gryphon.COM> Date: 1 Feb 89 06:58:04 GMT Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) Followup-To: nowhere, it's only a joke Distribution: na Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 21