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3. Added Details tab. On that, you can copy information from the font "name" table, such as author, license, website, and more.

2. Improved Glyphs tab. Glyphs are now grouped by Unicode categories. You can search glyphs by name or by Unicode group name. Also, tab performance with many glyphs is much faster now.

20th century: Sans-serif fonts emerged (no serifs, even thickness). Phototypesetting in the 1960s revolutionized production, leading to today's digital typography.

Evolution continued: Transitional types (17th century) added more contrast, Baskerville's sharp forms were "shocking" in the 1700s, then came Baroque variations mixing roman & italic on same lines.

Renaissance brought vertical stems, circular bowls & crisp serifs. Aldus Manutius introduced italic type in 1495 to save space. Claude Garamond's famous typeface from the 1530s is still widely used today.

1440: Gutenberg's printing press changed everything. His Bible used Gothic typeface, but Roman letters inspired by classical inscriptions soon emerged. Nicolas Jenson created one of the first balanced Roman typefaces in Venice ~1470.

Medieval monks became scribes, evolving letters from rounded "uncial" shapes to sharp Carolingian minuscule under Charlemagne. Then came dense, angular Blackletter (Gothic script) - beautiful but hard to read.

Some italics don't even slope! Structure matters more than angle. Quadraat has upright italics. It's about that flowing, cursive DNA from Renaissance scribes.

⚠️ Most "italics" today are fake! Helvetica "Italic" is just slanted Helvetica. Real examples: Adobe Garamond Pro, Mrs Eaves, Dante - each hand-drawn with cursive structure.

Francesco Griffo's 1499 italic had 70+ ligatures (letters tied together like 'ffi'). True italics are 5-10% narrower than their roman partners and sit compactly.

📐 Real italics slope 7-20° and have "transitive serifs" - strokes that show the pen flowing from letter to letter, like Renaissance calligraphy from 1500s Italy.