Emphasis (typography)
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In typography, emphasis is the strengthening of words in a text with a font in a different style from the rest of the text, to highlight them. It is the equivalent of prosody stress in speech.
Dominican Missal, c. 1240, with rubrics in red (Historical Museum of Lausanne)
Shakespeare's play Othello, printed in 1623. Bold type had not yet been invented. Emphasis is provided by using italics, used for key words, stage directions and the names of characters, and capitalization of key words.
Font
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In metal typesetting, a font is a particular size, weight, and style of a typeface, a set of fonts that share an overall design. For instance, the typeface Bauer Bodoni includes fonts "Roman 12pt", "b
Emphasis (typography)
…In typography, emphasis is the strengthening of words in a text with a font in a different style from the rest of the text, to highlight them. It is the equivalent of prosody stress in speech. The most common methods in Western…
Metal type sorts arranged on a composing stick
A 1910 letterpress poster, advertising an auction, using a variety of typefaces and fonts