Have you ever tried to check how slant alphabets 'type' got its name as "italics" ? i bet no one would have scratched their head or even tried to learn about that and i am not exception too...
though many of them have used the font types "Bold, underline, italics, strike through" etc in their life extensively no one would have noticed that all the font type has the names which directly represent what it is such as "Bold" to bolden the font underline to underline it, but why not "Slant" instead of "Italics"?
recently while browsing i came across this below interesting pic as old saying "a picture speaks 1000 words" was true i got to know why the name italics all by seeing the PIC.
though many of them have used the font types "Bold, underline, italics, strike through" etc in their life extensively no one would have noticed that all the font type has the names which directly represent what it is such as "Bold" to bolden the font underline to underline it, but why not "Slant" instead of "Italics"?
recently while browsing i came across this below interesting pic as old saying "a picture speaks 1000 words" was true i got to know why the name italics all by seeing the PIC.
btw have you ever tried to know it or you know before why it is called so do leave a comment though i really dont know whether the motive behind the naming was leaning tower of pisa if you have anything more information share with us.
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"This style is called "italic" for historical reasons. Calligraphic typefaces started to be designed in Italy, for chancery purposes. Ludovico Arrighi and Aldus Manutius (both between the 15th and 16th centuries) were the main type designers involved in this process at the time."
from Wikipedia ;)
Good post and great info.
but it is a co-incidence that leaning tower of pisa also symbolizes italy and also its leaning corresponding to tower :)
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