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  2. Italic type - Wikipedia

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    Font families with an upright or near-upright italic only include Jan van Krimpen's Romanée, Eric Gill's Joanna, Martin Majoor's FF Seria and Frederic Goudy's Deepdene. The popular book typeface Bembo has been sold with two italics: one reasonably straightforward design that is commonly used today, and an alternative upright 'Condensed Italic ...

  3. Letter symbolism - Wikipedia

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    Letter symbolism concerns the symbolic meaning and value of letters (graphic signs representing a phoneme or group of phonemes in written language), whether read or written, in alphabetical script or elsewhere. While the meaning may not be immediately apparent, studying the symbols can reveal the significance of each letter.

  4. Ligature (writing) - Wikipedia

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    In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes or letters are joined to form a single glyph.Examples are the characters æ and œ used in English and French, in which the letters a and e are joined for the first ligature and the letters o and e are joined for the second ligature.

  5. Cursive - Wikipedia

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    Cursive is a style of penmanship in which the symbols of the language are written in a conjoined, or flowing, manner, generally for the purpose of making writing faster.. This writing style is distinct from "print-script" using block letters, in which the letters of a word are unconnect

  6. Emphasis (typography) - Wikipedia

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    A means of emphasis that does not have much effect on blackness is the use of italics, where the text is written in a script style, or oblique, where the vertical orientation of each letter of the text is slanted to the left or right. With one or the other of these techniques (usually only one is available for any typeface), words can be ...

  7. Bembo - Wikipedia

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    Bembo is a serif typeface created by the British branch of the Monotype Corporation in 1928–1929 and most commonly used for body text.It is a member of the "old-style" of serif fonts, with its regular or roman style based on a design cut around 1495 by Francesco Griffo for Venetian printer Aldus Manutius, sometimes generically called the "Aldine roman".

  8. What handwriting supposedly says about you - AOL

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    People who write with connected letters are associated with being logical and systematic. Crossing the very top of the 'T' generally means that you have good self-esteem, are optimistic and ambitious.

  9. Roman type - Wikipedia

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    Bembo is a roman typeface (shown with italic) dating to 1928 based on punches cut by Francesco Griffo in 1494. [1] [2] [3] [4]In Latin script typography, roman is one of the three main kinds of historical type, alongside blackletter and italic.