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FONT POSTER DESIGN
usage
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Decorative Applications (bank checks, legal documents, certificates, currency, and fancy cards, estaurant menus and invitation)
Digital Media (desktop use, web fonts (for websites), and mobile applications)
Historical Context (printing copybooks, formal business correspondence and legal documents.)
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history
Due to the introduction of lithography, which allows greater freedom of design, even handwritten letters easily find applications in printing.
calligraphic typefaces are widely used in commerce or for official documents for which it is necessary to maintain the traditional appearance of the manuscript.
England in 19th century, the most economically advanced country, a new type of script appears, called Copperplate.
modelled on the elegant French calligraphy of Barbedor who had already inspired, at the start of 18th century, the English calligrapher George Shelley.
characteristics
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55 degree slant, measured from horizontal baseline
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