QMS 1060, User Manual

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About
Typefaces and
Fonts
QMS 1060 Print System Reference 3-6
Stroke Weight
Orientation
Orientation is the direction of the print or image on a page. Portrait
orientation reads from left to right, across the narrower dimension of
the page. Landscape orientation also reads from left to right but
places the print across the wider dimension of the page. Spreadsheet
and table applications commonly use landscape printing. Both terms
Stoke weight (light/medium/bold) is the
width (thickness), of the lines (strokes) that
make up a character. The example at left
shows the medium and bold weights of
Palatino.
Italic and Oblique Forms
Times Roman
Times Italic
Italic was originally developed in
the early sixteenth century as a
typeface based on cursive
handwriting. Today’s italics are
still individually crafted typefaces
designed to blend with a specific roman (upright) typeface.
ITC Avant Garde Roman
ITC Avant Garde Oblique
Oblique (or slanted) type
forms, however, are not
designed and crafted
individually but are mechanically slanted versions of the roman form
from which they derive.
Pala
tino
Pala
tin
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