RBMS Controlled Vocabularies: Type Evidence

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Generic designations (Gathering term; do not assign)

. Latin characters

.. Black letter types

.. Italic types

..     SN: Most italics are italicized versions of a Roman face, but a
.. few were designed to accompany Roman types that did not
.. have their own italic and were given names different from
.. their accompanying Roman. For example, Arrighi was
.. designed to accompany Centaur. Italic faces -- both
.. computer and hand-designed -- are often just the roman face
.. slanted a few degrees off its vertical axis.

.. Roman types

.. Script types

..     SN: Use for typefaces which imitate cursive writing.

... Civilité

. Non-Latin characters

.     SN: Use this term for non-Latin alphabets. It is not within
. the scope of this thesaurus to list all non-Roman
. characters; optionally, subdivide by a particular alphabets
. in |x.

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