Italic
イタリック / 1501– / Style / Letterform History
The humanist cursive cast in type: slanted letters that made pocket books possible, later becoming the second voice beside roman.
Rightward slant / Cursive continuity / Narrow width / Contrast with roman
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Not mere 'oblique.' Distinguish slanted distortion from the true italic's independent design.
- Further study
- Aldus Manutius / Francesco Griffo / the chancery hand