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From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Italics vs. Oblique fonts, was (Re: Helvetica)
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Date: 24 Jan 89 02:53:15 GMT
References: <1603@csuna.UUCP> <1989Jan23.144822.29002@cs.rochester.edu>
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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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