Roman, in printing, one of the three major typefaces in the history of Western typography (the others being italic and black letter, or Gothic) and, of those three, the face that is of the greatest importance and the widest use.
Italic, in printing, a sloping, light-bodied, compact, and almost cursive letter form, which, with roman and black letter shapes, has been one of the three major typefaces in the history of Western printing.
That's all well and all when you want to start from scratch or have a typeface that needs a major overhaul, but what about when all you want is just a couple of tweaks?
Exceptions in which the minor allele at the whole population level is the major allele in one breed are indicated in bold typeface.
To divide the several thousand typefaces that have existed since Gutenberg into three major families is only the grossest type of classification, and historians of typography, like teachers of typography, have found it useful to set up other classifications.
Pick wanted a clear, modern typeface that would be used for station nameplates and other major signs on the Underground.
But with time many sans-serifs have become associated with major modernist movements in graphic design most importantly, the 1920s Bauhaus aligning with the Geometric typeface Futura and the 1950s Swiss school with the Neo-Grotesque typeface Helvetica.
So-called modern types were produced between c. 1788 (when Giambattista Bodoni introduced the typeface that retains his name) and approximately 1820, when type design almost everywhere went into a major decline.
Two other principal headline typefaces in the news pages are being replaced: *Century Bold Italic, used for banner headlines on major news at the top of Page A1, will be replaced by Times Cheltenham Extrabold Italic.
