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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
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Date: 1 Feb 89 06:58:04 GMT
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
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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)

-- 
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