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  2. History of Western typography - Wikipedia

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    The svelte French style reached its fullest refinement in the roman types attributed to the best-known figure of French typography—Claude Garamond (also Garamont). In 1541 Robert Estienne, printer to the king, helped Garamond obtain commissions to cut the sequence of Greek fonts for King Francis I of France, known as the "grecs du roi". A ...

  3. Clarendon (typeface) - Wikipedia

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    This style is also traditionally associated with wild-west printing; it is commonly seen on circus posters and wanted notices in western movies. [42] [43] However, it was actually used in many parts of the world at the time. The concept, now called as reverse-contrast or reverse-stress type, predated Clarendon altogether.

  4. Western calligraphy - Wikipedia

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    First page of Paul's epistle to Philemon in the Rochester Bible (12th century). A modern calligraphic rendition of the word calligraphy (Denis Brown, 2006). Western calligraphy is the art of writing and penmanship as practiced in the Western world, especially using the Latin alphabet (but also including calligraphic use of the Cyrillic and Greek alphabets, as opposed to "Eastern" traditions ...

  5. Emphasis (typography) - Wikipedia

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    Example of black letter emphasis using the technique of changing fonts. In typography, emphasis is the strengthening of words in a text with a font in a different style from the rest of the text, to highlight them. [1] It is the equivalent of prosody stress in speech.

  6. List of script typefaces - Wikipedia

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    Samples of Calligraphic Script typefaces Typeface name Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 American Scribe: AMS Euler Designer: Hermann Zapf, Donald Knuth Apple Chancery Designer: Kris Holmes

  7. Font - Wikipedia

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    In metal typesetting, a font (American English) or fount (Commonwealth English) is a particular size, weight and style of a typeface, defined as the set of fonts that share an overall design. For instance, the typeface Bauer Bodoni (shown in the figure) includes fonts " Roman " (or "regular"), " bold " and " italic "; each of these exists in a ...