It had been banned by the Soviet linguistic reform of 1933 as being " non-Ukrainian " ( possibly because the Ukrainian letter followed more closely the model of the Gamma letter of the Greek Alphabet, by not adopting the very distinctive letterform of the Russian letter " Ghe " used in cursive and italic styles ).

* 1514 Virgil ( the first of the italic type pocket octavo editions )

Instead, it presumably refers to the practice of setting law books and citing legal precedents in blackletter type, a tradition that survived long after the switch to roman and italic text for other printed works.

Scalars: Symbols for physical quantities are usually chosen to be a single letter of the Latin or Greek alphabet, and are printed in italic type.

Numerical quantities, even those denoted by letters, are usually printed in roman ( upright ) type, though sometimes can be italic.

* Roman type, an upright typeface style, contrasted to italic

Italic fonts include italic type features instead of just tilted romans.

The modern italic type ampersand is a kind of et-ligature that goes back to the cursive scripts developed during the Renaissance.

The distinction between font and typeface is that a font designates a specific member of a type family such as roman, boldface, or italic type, while typeface designates a consistent visual appearance or style which can be a " family " or related set of fonts.

The lowercase letter a — In standard " Latin " type, the lowercase letter a has a hook on the top ( and is called the " hook a "), unlike the form taught in elementary schools, which is also used in italic type.

The form seen in standard roman type differs widely from that taught in elementary schools ( and italic type ), having an " ear " at the upper right and a descender that starts from the left and ends in a bowl, rather than a loop.

The lowercase letter p — In italic type, this lowercase letter often has a half-way ascender as the vertical extension of the descender.

From 1984 to 1990, the screen was accompanied by an italic " Showtime " text in Franklin Gothic type, with the " W " and " T " connected.

His publishing legacy includes the distinctions of inventing italic type, establishing the modern use of the semicolon, developing the modern appearance of the comma, and introducing inexpensive books in small formats bound in vellum that were read much like modern paperbacks.

The leading publisher and printer of the Venetian High Renaissance, Aldus set up a definite scheme of book design, produced the first italic type, introduced small and handy pocket editions ( octavos ) of the classics, and applied several innovations in binding technique and design for use on a broad scheme.

He commissioned Francesco Griffo to cut a slanted type known today as italic.

In addition to italic type, characters such as cent sign (¢), copyright symbol (©), ampersand (&), at sign (@), sharp S ( ß ), Omega ( Ω ) and integral symbol (∫) are redesigned.

For the first time, italic type features are incorporated in the italic fonts.

In typography, italic type is a cursive typeface based on a stylized form of calligraphic handwriting.

Unlike the italic type of today, the capital letters were upright roman capitals which were shorter than the ascending lower-case italic letters and used about 65 tied letters ( ligatures ) in the Aldine Dante and Virgil of 1501.

An example set in both Roman type | roman and italic type.

Vectors are usually denoted in lowercase boldface, as a or lowercase italic boldface, as a.

( Vivid differences between the two versions do occur in the lowercase z in the italic weight and in the percent sign in all weights.

Matrices are represented by capital letters in bold, vectors in lowercase bold, and entries of vectors and matrices are italic ( since they are scalars ).

At the same time text representations of the Proton name were changed from lowercase italic text " proton " to uppercase " PROTON ".

Following the humanist model the lowercase italic a becomes single story.

The italic e is highly calligraphic, and the lowercase p has a vestigial calligraphic tail reminiscent of the italics of Caslon and Baskerville.

Gill Sans also shares several humanist sans-serif characteristics with Charlotte Sans: a double storey roman a and g, and a single storey lowercase italic a. Toronto Subway is based on Johnston and is often confused with Gill Sans.

In italic fonts, the lowercase letter ⟨< span style =" font-family: times, ' Times New Roman ', serif ; font-size: larger "> и </ span >⟩ looks like the italic form of the lowercase Latin U ⟨< span style =" font-family: times, ' Times New Roman ', serif ; font-size: larger "> u </ span >⟩.

The letterform of Ghe with upturn is based on the Cyrillic letter Ghe ( Г г ), but its handwritten and italic lowercase forms do not follow the italic modification of Ge (< span style =" font-family: times, ' Times New Roman ', serif ; font-size: larger "> г </ span >).

In italic type and cursive, the lowercase form ⟨< span style =" font-family: Times New Roman, serif ; font-size: larger "> т </ span >⟩ looks like the italic form of the lowercase Latin M ⟨< span style =" font-family: Times New Roman, serif ; font-size: larger "> m </ span >⟩, except in Serbian and Macedonian usage where it looks like an inverted lowercase Latin M, with a stroke above to distinguish it from the otherwise identical italic lowercase letter Sha ⟨< span style =" font-family: Times New Roman, serif ; font-size: larger "> ш </ span >⟩.

The major changes to the Times Roman typeface itself were a reduction in the slope of italic characters to 12 degrees from 16 degrees, so as to reduce the need for kerning, and a change in the form of italic v and w so that italic v could be more easily distinguished from a Greek nu.

Nüshu characters are an italic variant form of Kaishu Chinese characters, as can be seen in the name of the script, though some have been substantially modified to better fit embroidery patterns.

Writing at about 100 years after the end of the Social War ( 91 – 88 BC ), a failed last attempt of the italic tribes to form a union, Italy, that would compete with Rome in power and influence, the Roman geographer, Strabo, placed the location of the Vestini as he knew it to be as follows.

Holzer's first public works, Truisms ( 1977 – 9 ), appeared in the form of anonymous broadsheets that she printed anonymously in black italic script on white paper and wheat-pasted to buildings, walls and fences in and around Manhattan.

Its lowercase form is similar to an italic long s < span style =" font-family: serif ;">&# x17F ;&# x202f ;</ span > or an integral sign ; in 1928 the Africa Alphabet borrowed the Greek letter sigma for the uppercase form, but more recently the African reference alphabet discontinued it, using the lowercase esh only.

Oblique type ( or slanted, sloped ) is a form of type that slants slightly to the right, used in the same manner as italic type.

This change may have been spurred by the fact that long s looks somewhat like an f ( in both its roman and italic forms ), whereas short s did not have this disadvantage, making it easier to identify, especially for people with problems of vision.

The letter ‘ w ’, for example, looks quite different in italic compared to upright.

Through history the Cyrillic letter A has had various shapes, but today is standardised on one that looks exactly like the Latin letter A, including the italic forms.

Small italic Cyrillic Pe < span style =" font-family: times, ' Times New Roman ', serif ; font-size: larger ">⟨ п ⟩</ span > in the majority of fonts or handwritten styles looks like the small italic Latin N < span style =" font-family: times, ' Times New Roman ', serif ; font-size: larger ">⟨ n ⟩</ span >.

It looks the same as the Latin letter X ( X x < span style =" font-family: serif ; font-size: larger "> X x </ span >), in both uppercase and lowercase, both roman and italic forms.