Italic and oblique and slanted fonts

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Pyanepsion
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Italic and oblique and slanted fonts

Post by Pyanepsion »

Hello everyone,
  1. An italic font is a specially created font and apart from the rightward slant, some glyphs have a different design to their Roman equivalents, for example a and g.
  2. An oblique font is a Roman font slanted to the right.
  3. A slanted font could be slanted to the left (but Amiri slanted is slanted to the right so a priori either italic or oblique, but many characters are identical to the regular form!)
Finally,, how can one really be sure that a font named italic or oblique or slanted is so?
Thank you for your explanations.
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Re: Italic and oblique and slanted fonts

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Pyanepsion wrote: Mon Aug 02, 2021 9:26 am Finally,, how can one really be sure that a font named italic or oblique or slanted is so?
Look at it ! If it looks slanted or italic then it probably is. :lol:
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Re: Italic and oblique and slanted fonts

Post by Bhikkhu Pesala »

See Font Properties, Masters, General to see whether the font is Regular, Bold, Italic, or Bold Italic.

When a user selects the italic attribute in a word-processor, the italic version of the font is used.

Italic fonts usually have a negative italic angle, but they do not have to actually be slanted.

Script fonts may be Regular type style, but still slanted, e.g. Hari Regular.
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Re: Italic and oblique and slanted fonts

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Properties Master displays what has been entered into the font by the author.
Here, the master is (mischievously) called Casimir for a Google Roboto Regular font registered as… Roboto Bold.
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How can we be sure that the Italic, Slanted, Oblique information the author has entered is correct?
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