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Rotalic
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Rotalic is a rotation applied to a typeface. It is a variation similar to the oblique type and the italic type as the vertical lines of a glyph are inclined, but it differs from these other variations in keeping the original shape of the characters. Therefore, any typeface can have a rotalic version. The name rotalic is a combination of roman (generally used to refer to normal typefaces) and italic (generally used to refer to slanted ones). Examples Usage The rotalic typeface is mainly used to highlight a text or as a display font. It can fit the same semantic purposes of the italic and oblique typefaces (emphasis, titles, foreign words), though examples of its usage are still rare. Alternative Representations Counter-clockwise Rotalic The rotation is applied in the opposite direction. Extra Rotalic A rotalic typeface is usually rotated between 7 and 10 degrees. The Extra Rotalic have rotations from 15 to 20 degrees. History The rotalic was introduced as a typeface variation by Filip Tydén in 2007. The first typeface to have a rotalic version was the Helvetica Textbook, which was used in a series of posters at the Royal College of Art in London. One of the first posters set in rotalic by Filip Tydén. See Also
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