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In terms of typography, italics are also applied for titles, for quotes (in some contexts), for foreign expressions, sometimes for dialogs, and sometimes simply
by Yoric 4y ago
In terms of typography, italics are also applied for titles, for quotes (in some contexts), for foreign expressions, sometimes for dialogs, and sometimes simply because they are easier to read. For a screen reader, you don't want to emphasize these use cases.
- masswerk 4y agoThey are still used to separate that expression, to make the expression stand out from the rest of the text. Surely, if I set a quote in italics, I mean this to be read in a distinctive voice by an aural presentation. (This is the entire point of separating it by a distinctive type style. I'm actually somewhat alarmed that this isn't the case.) Edit: There's a clear meaning to the use of distinctive type styles. I don't see an intrinsic value in pretending and that there is no such intended meaning and that there should be an artificial separation, rather than generalizing on presentation styles. Edit #2: In Antiqua, italics isn't just oblique text, it's an entirely different script. So what is the use case and the intended meaning of using a different script? Isn't this more conceptual than just using a fancy visual presentation style, which may be happily ignored in any other representation as there's probably no intended meaning to this?