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The origin of a hypothetical ancestral "Italo-Celtic" people is to be found in today's eastern Hungary, settled around 3100 BC by the Yamnaya culture. This hypothesis is to some extent supported by the observation that Italic shares a large number of isoglosses and lexical terms with Celtic and Germanic , some of which are more likely to be ...
Map 1: Indo-European migrations as described in The Horse, the Wheel, and Language by David W. Anthony Map 2: Possible area of origin and migration route of Proto-Italic speaking people towards Italian peninsula Map 3: Ethnicities of today's Italy in 400 BC. The Italic tribes lived at this point in the south-central part of the Italian peninsula.
By mid-century the popularity of italic types for sustained text setting began to decline until they were used only for in-line citations, block quotes, preliminary text, emphasis, and abbreviations. Italic types from the 20th century up to the present are much indebted to Arrighi and his influence on French designers.
The first book that was dated and printed under his name appeared in 1495. [1] The Aldine Press is famous in the history of typography, among other things, for the introduction of italics. [2] The press was the first to issue printed books in the small octavo size, similar to that of a modern paperback, and intended for portability and ease of ...
Aldus Manutius' italic, in a 1501 edition of Virgil. Italic is only used for the lower case and not for capitals. [1] In typography, italic type is a cursive font based on a stylised form of calligraphic handwriting. [2] [3] [4] Along with blackletter and roman type, it served as one of the major typefaces in the history of Western typography.
Use {{Italic title}} to italicize the part of the title before the first parenthesis. Use {{Italic disambiguation}} to italicize the part of the title in the parenthesis. Use the {{DISPLAYTITLE:}} magic word or {{Italic title|string=}} template for titles with a mix of italic and roman text, as at List of Sex and the City episodes and The Hustler.
Tschichold's standardization of Penguin covers essentially took existing elements and refined them visually and refined their arrangement. Under Tschichold the covers included the use of Eric Gill's Gill Sans typeface, which he was careful to have spaced evenly. According to Tschichold establishing this quality was not immediately embraced by ...
Alfred John Fairbank CBE (12 July 1895 – 14 March 1982) was a British calligrapher, palaeographer and author on handwriting. [1] [2]Fairbank was a founding member of the Society of Scribes and Illuminators in 1921, and later became its honourable secretary. [3]