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Fun fact! Italic typefaces was originally not designed for emphasizing text but as a way so save paper since the slanting allows the letters to sit tighter.
by Puts 4y ago
Fun fact! Italic typefaces was originally not designed for emphasizing text but as a way so save paper since the slanting allows the letters to sit tighter.
- tgv 4y agoAnother fun fact. In linguistics, italics is used to denote the utterance rather than its meaning. It's not emphasis, but a visual signal that says "this bit is in another language or a single syllable or whatever we're discussing".