Well, Unibody from Underware is a bitmap family that comes with an upright italic and roman. The best part is that it's free.

http://www.underware.nl/site2/index.php3?id1=unibody&id2=overview

A quick google search also found this gem:

http://www.micropress-inc.com/fonts/ecfonts/ecf1s.htm

A quick google search also found this gem:

http://www.micropress-inc.com/fonts/ecfonts/ecf1s.htm

It never ceases to amaze me how uninspired the typography of TEX tends to be. There must be some sort of inverse relationship between design aptitude and ability to grasp TEX.

I thought the extra-inclusive pangram near the bottom of the page was pretty cool, though.

Indeed. But maybe the following explains why the TeX type is generally function over form:

quite a few TeX installations are routinely using commercial Type 1 fonts, especially if they're not producing heavily technical material; only Computer Modern (the font Knuth developed), Lucida Bright, and Times have anywhere near a comprehensive symbol complement, and none of the symbol sets are from "major" font suppliers (too much work, not enough money; the demise of Monotype's symbol catalog � metal only � is a particularly great loss).

From this page

> The best part is that [Unibody is] free.

While the worst part is that the only way to effectively mark emphasis with Unibody is to use the Regular in a body of Bold...

Brian, the most prominent font with an upright italic (although it's actually slanted by [an average of] 1/2 a degree) is FF Seria. Of course that one doesn't work either.

hhp