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30 HISTORIC FEINTING TYPES. Diminished use of Italic. Capitals In- clined by French type founders. more readable and was preferred. In time Italic was assigned its present office as a display letter for Eoman, of which it is now the indispensable complement. Yet its use is diminishing. One hundred years ago a font of text type was made up of about nine-tenths Eoman and one- tenth Italic. The apportionment made by type-founders of our time allows but about one-twentieth of Italic. Gran j on of Lyons, as well as Tory of Paris, gave to the capitals of their Italic the same inclination as to the small letters, but Tory's pupil, Claude Graramond, thought ^(OTHING FOT{ THE WHITE , 5^07? THE ^BE^IUTIFUL i SEE ONLY^J TETTY TYPE ON </! ^(IGGAT^DLY T^IGE. LE FEVT{E. A modern imitation of the old Swash letters. it desirable in some capitals to fill up the vacant spaces made by this inclination, which he did by protracting and curving lines. These characters were then known among English printers as Swash letters.