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Originally Posted by Hitch
Yeah, but, it's beyond rare. Hell, I don't think I recall one.
Hitch
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I've not seen it. It was just in an article explaining fonts. Some people curiously don't want a real Italic (which sort of was an Italian idea to make type look like script without being a fancy script) but simply want it slanted. Doing slanted or bolding badly on a simple bitmap font* was how early terminals did it. Some small mono LCD panels on instruments or radios still use this using on the fly rendering via the microcontroller. Makes no sense really on a proper font.
( * Such as 5 x 7 or 8 x 8, invariably fixed size and monospace)