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Understanding Fonts
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Understanding
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Appendixes
Weight and Style
Typefaces are often available in different weights and styles. These
variations modify the original typeface so you can, for example,
emphasize important words in text or highlight book titles. The
different weights and styles are designed to complement the origi-
nal typeface.
Weight refers to the thickness of the lines that form the characters.
Thicker lines result in darker characters. Some words commonly
used to describe the weight of a typeface are bold, medium, light,
black, and heavy.
Style refers to other typeface modifications, such as tilt or character
width. Italic and oblique are styles where the characters are tilted.
Narrow, condensed, and extended are three common styles that
modify the character widths.
Some fonts combine several weight and style modifications; for
example Helvetica Narrow Bold Italic. A group of several weight
and style variations of a single typeface is called a typeface family.
Most typeface families have four variations: regular, italic, bold,
and bold italic. Some families have more variations, as the follow-
ing illustration for the Helvetica typeface family shows:
Helvetica ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Helvetica Italic ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Helvetica-Bold ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Helvetica-BoldItalic ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Helvetica-Narrow ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUWXTYZ
Helvetica-Narrow Italic ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Helvetica-Narrow Bold ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Helvetica-Narrow-BoldItalic ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ