Fig. 2: Example of blackletter emphasis using the technique of changing fonts

In typography, emphasis is the exaggeration of words in a text with a font in a different style from the rest of the text—to emphasize them. Look up bold in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up boldface in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Image File history File links Fraktur. ... Image File history File links Fraktur. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Methods & use of emphasis

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The human eye is very receptive to differences in brightness within a text body. One can therefore differentiate between types of emphasis according to whether the emphasis changes the "blackness" of text. Image File history File links Emphasis_typography1. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ...

A means of emphasis that does not have much effect on "blackness" is printing in italics, where the text is written in a script style, or oblique, where the vertical orientation of all letters is slanted to the left or right. With one or other of these techniques (usually only one is available for any typeface), words can be highlighted without making them "stick out" much from the rest of the text (inconspicuous stressing). Traditionally, this is used for marking passages that have a different context, such as words from foreign languages, book titles, etc. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Oblique type is not the same of Italic type - Italic (Cursive) type is based of Aldus Manutius caligraphy, and Oblique (Slanted) is a mere distortion. ...

By contrast, boldface makes text darker than the surrounding text. With this technique, the emphasized text strongly stands out from the rest; it should therefore be used to highlight certain keywords that are important to the subject of the text, for easy visual scanning of text. For example, printed dictionaries often use boldface for their keywords, and the names of articles can conventionally be marked in bold.

If the text body is typeset in a serif typeface, it is also possible to highlight words by setting them in a sans serif face. This practice is somewhat archaic. In typography, serifs are non-structural details on the ends of some of the strokes that make up letters and symbols. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

The above-mentioned methods of emphasis fall under the general technique of emphasis through a change of font.

Emphasis in design

With both italics and boldface, the emphasis is correctly achieved by temporarily replacing the current typeface. “Font” redirects here. ...

Professional typographic systems (which include most modern computers) would therefore not simply tilt letters to the right to achieve italics (that is instead referred to as slanting) or print them darker for boldface, but instead use entirely different typefaces that achieve the effect. As can be seen in Fig. 1, the "w" letter, for example, looks quite different in italic compared to the regular typeface.

As a result, typefaces therefore have to be supplied at least fourfold (with computer systems, usually as four font files): as regular, bold, italic, and bold italic to provide for all combinations. Professional typefaces sometimes offer even more variations for popular fonts, with varying degrees of blackness. Only if such fonts are not available should the effect of italic or boldface be imitated by tilting or blacking the original font.

Alternative methods for emphasis

Capitalization

The house styles of many publishers in the United States use capitalization or all-uppercase letters, in order to emphasise A publishing companys or periodicals house style is the collection of conventions in its manual of style. ... Capitalization (or capitalisation) is writing a word with its first letter as a majuscule (upper case letter) and the remaining letters in minuscules (lower case letters), in those writing systems which have a case distinction. ... Majuscules or capital letters (in the Roman alphabet: A, B, C, ...) are one type of case in a writing system. ...

• publication titles
• warning messages
• newspaper headlines
• chapter and section headings

Capitalization is used much less commonly today by British publishers, and usually only for book titles. It is rarely used in other languages. Look up warning in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A headline is text at the top of a newspaper article, indicating the nature of the article below it. ...

All-uppercase letters are a common form of emphasis where the medium lacks support for boldface, such as old typewriters, plain-text email, SMS and other text-messaging systems. Mechanical desktop typewriters, such as this Underwood Five, were long time standards of government agencies, newsrooms, and sales offices. ... E-mail, or email, is short for electronic mail and is a method of composing, sending, and receiving messages over electronic communication systems. ... This article describes the technical methods for providing the text messaging service. ...

Japanese text can be emphasised in a similar way by writing the emphasised text entirely in katakana phonetic characters. Katakana ) is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji, and in some cases the Latin alphabet. ...

Letterspacing

In Germany, a different means of emphasis was previously used. To achieve a variance in blackness, instead of making the letters darker, one would increase the spacing between them. This resulted in an effect reverse to boldface: the emphasized text becomes lighter than its environment. This was referred to as sperren in German ("letterspacing" in English), which could here be translated as "spacing out". While sperren normally means "to lock (out)", this particular meaning was figurative: with the older method of typesetting with letters of lead, the spacing would be achieved by inserting additional non-printing slices of metal between the types. Figurative art describes artworks - particularly paintings - which are clearly derived from real object sources, but are not necessarily representational. ...

The reason for this particular German typographic convention can be seen in the traditional use of blackletter typefaces, for which boldface was not feasible, since the letters were very dark in their standard format. The blackletter typefaces were officially abolished in 1942 by Nazi Germany^{[citation needed]}(see Antiqua-Fraktur dispute), and after that, its use quickly diminished. As a result, the use of spacing as a means of emphasis in printed materials quickly became obsolete. However, spacing is sometimes still used as a means of emphasis in typographic media where only one typeset is available, e.g. in typewritten communication or on text-only computer terminals. Blackletter in a Latin Bible of AD 1407, on display in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... The Antiqua-Fraktur dispute was a typographical dispute in 19th and 20th century Germany. ... Mechanical desktop typewriters, such as this Underwood Five, were long time standards of government agencies, newsrooms, and sales offices. ... A computer terminal is an electronic or electromechanical hardware device that is used for entering data into, and displaying data from, a computer or a computing system. ...

The method of increasing letter spacing for emphasis has also been used in other countries, like The Netherlands. Motto: Je Maintiendrai (Dutch: Ik zal handhaven, English: I Shall Uphold) Anthem: Wilhelmus van Nassouwe Capital Amsterdam1 Largest city Amsterdam Official language(s) Dutch2 Government Parliamentary democracy Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Beatrix  - Prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende Independence Eighty Years War   - Declared July 26, 1581   - Recognised January 30, 1648 (by Spain...

Special punctuation marks

In Chinese, emphasis in body text is supposed to be indicated by using an "emphasis mark" (着重號), which is a dot placed under each character to be emphasized. This is still taught in schools, but in practice it is not usually done, probably due to the difficulty of doing this in most computer software. Methods used for emphasis in western texts but inappropriate for Chinese, for example underlining and setting text in artificially slanted type (frequently incorrectly called "italics"), are often used instead.

In Korean texts, a dot is placed above each hangul syllable block or hanja to be emphasized. Jamo redirects here. ... Hanja is the Korean name for Chinese characters. ...