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Roman Vs. Italic

Eric_West

Recently, after learning of the roots of italic, I have been paying more attention to them and how it seems that majiscules in Italic sets never really seem to fit. The more I look at them, the uppercase is basically just angled. I realize they have been redrawn for the set, but does anyone else sense that disconnect between the upper and lowercase in Italic sets ?

Historically the caps were actually upright romans.
Look at samples of Arrighi’s specimen of italics.

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