(In Colines' case he would revise a face but retain characters he thought were successful.) This leads to complications, such as the fact that half of Granjon's
italics were smaller than Pica, in size, and we only have evidence from (sometimes badly printed) 500year-old books to go on.
Thus, if most of the earliest Lyonese italic-letter editions are counterfeits, or `pseudo-Aldines,' one of the first three editions is a `quasi-Aldine,' that is, an edition derived from a non-Aldine edition but printed in a (protected)
italic. (10) So, it is evident that, from the start, the Lyonese had grasped the essence of the new Aldine principle.
As an ex-teacher in this city, I was aware that the
italics are, in fact, highlighted revisions of the document and that I had only 15 days to contest it.
Their theory was bolstered by the fact that the first ten spell out "Smithy Code." Over the next few pages more letters stand out in
italics but do not spell anything.
Italic letters in the first seven paragraphs spell "Smithy Code".
Copywriter Rene Gnam suggests using two type fonts--bold for the company names for the skipand-skim reader who just wants to see who these endorsements are from, and
italic for the few filberts who actually want to read every word.
Venice's northeastern frontier, it was a cultural borderland of alpine and peninsular, of Germanic,
Italic and even Slav.
Out of 224 respondents, 92 percent favored serif lower case and 86 percent preferred serif
italic lower case.
At this point another interesting aside intrudes, this time dealing with the history of writing and the development of the
italic letter and the separation of words.
* Avoid
Italics.
Italic type is hard to read on screen.