In typography, the upright, regular-weight style of a Typeface, as opposed to Italic, Oblique, or bold variants. The term originates from the round, open letterforms of the Roman inscriptional tradition, which supplanted the dense Blackletter scripts in European printing during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. "Roman" thus carries two related meanings: it denotes the historical letterform model based on classical Roman capitals and Carolingian minuscules, and it identifies the default upright style within any modern Type Family.
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