Re: Italic Serif fonts?

[Rob <veralist kudla org>]

On Monday 20 December 2004 10:53, Danilo ?egan wrote:
> My impression is that Garamond and Vera don't have a matching
> "text colour" (Garamond Italic seems much lighter, even more
> than it is common for italics), and relative x-height seems to
> be smaller.  Also, first Garamond I've found (copyrighted by
> Monotype, 1991-1995), doesn't even match in glyph size for the
> same point size (i.e. Garamond glyphs are around 12% smaller).

Yeah, I guess I wasn't clear.  What I meant was, when I need to 
use italics, I don't use Vera Serif at all due to its lack of 
italics.  I convert all of my body text to Garamond and then 
italicize what I need to.

Rob