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Italic type

In typography, italic type (or italics, plurale tantum) is a cursive font based on a stylised form of calligraphic handwriting. Along with blackletter and roman type, it served as one of the major typefaces in the history of Western typography. Owing to the influence from calligraphy, italics normally slant slightly to the right, like so. Different glyph…

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Italic type

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Edges135
Triples24
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.014706
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Italic type → Aldus, Aldus Manutius, Catherine, Francesco Griffo, In, It, Italic, Italy, Manutius, Niccoli, Niccolò, Scipio, Siena's, The, Venice, Virgil

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italic italics type roman oblique used style use text true example also font letters may fonts words one underlining upright

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American Type Foundersinstance ofa number of type foundries0.80text
Genzschinstance ofa number of type foundries0.80text
Gill also revived the original italic system of italic lower-case only from the 19th century onwards.ParenthesesThe Chicago Manual of Style suggests that parenthesesinstance ofSome Arts and Crafts movement-influenced printers0.80text
brackets surrounding text that beginsinstance ofSome Arts and Crafts movement-influenced printers0.80text
ends in italic or oblique type should also be italicisedinstance ofSome Arts and Crafts movement-influenced printers0.80text
Gill also revived the original italic system of italic lower-case only from the 19th century onwardsinstance ofSome Arts and Crafts movement-influenced printers0.80text
overlappinginstance ofto avoid problems0.80text
unequally spaced charactersinstance ofto avoid problems0.80text
Italic typerelated to historyItalic0.60section
Italic typerelated to historyAldus Manutius0.60section
Italic typerelated to historyVenice0.60section
Italic typerelated to historyManutius0.60section

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