A slanted variant of the Roman (upright) style produced by geometrically tilting the existing letterforms rather than redrawing them with calligraphic modifications. Obliques are most common in Sans Serif families, where the structural simplicity of the Glyph makes a mechanical slope visually acceptable. The distinction between Italic and oblique matters for both typographic precision and Font technology: an italic involves redesigned letter structures, whereas an oblique preserves the roman skeleton and simply applies a shear transformation.
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