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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.
Sample of Niccoli's cursive script, which developed into Italic type. Catherine of Siena, Epistole ("Letters"), published in Venice by Aldo Manuzio in September 1500: [6] illustrated table in which appear the first words ever printed in italics: iesus, inside the heart in the left hand and iesu dolce iesu amore inside the book in the right hand ...
This is a list of letters of the Latin script. The definition of a Latin-script letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode Standard that has a script property of 'Latin' and the general category of 'Letter'. An overview of the distribution of Latin-script letters in Unicode is given in Latin script in Unicode.
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.
Where a text is written in horizontal format, pages are read in the same order as English books, with the binding at the left and pages progressing to the right. Vertical books are printed the other way round, with the binding at the right, and pages progressing to the left.
Leaving open letters (like not closing an 'O') typically means that you are expressive, social and talkative. Writing a closed letter 'O' means that you are a private person and an introvert.
In this table, parentheses mark letters that stand in for themselves or for another. For instance, a rotated 'b' would be a 'q', and indeed some physical typefaces didn't bother with distinct sorts for lowercase b vs. q, d vs. p, or n vs. u; while a rotated 's' or 'z' would be itself.
The ISO basic Latin alphabet is an international standard (beginning with ISO/IEC 646) for a Latin-script alphabet that consists of two sets (uppercase and lowercase) of 26 letters, codified in [1] various national and international standards and used widely in international communication.