In article <MUzcf.173$>,
"Rock Star" wrote:
Why are some font types able to be made bold or italic
and some can only be used as regular.
Because the person who created the fonts did not create bold and italic versions.
Many people who know little or nothing about type mistakenly believe that "bold" means "make the font thicker" and "italic" means "make the
font slant." In fact, when a person creates a font, he creates thebold and italic styles too; they are *different fonts.*
Not all fonts have all styles. And some fonts have more than just "bold" and "italic"–for example, Futura has light, medium, Roman, heavy, bold, extra bold, and black.
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