Italics play diverse roles in various applications, including mimicking speech, emphasizing text, altering meaning, and enhancing design aesthetics. However, while there is extensive documentation on drawing roman typefaces, information on creating italic companions is limited.
Italic Act is a new initiative by Jolana Sýkorová and Sabina Chipară that seeks to address this gap by engaging in discussions with different designers, including experts in other scripts, to understand the latest italic design approaches. The goal is to highlight differences in methodologies, identify common grounds, and showcase different
methods of drawing italics.
We also conduct workshops with design students in order to focus on creative expressions of the italic shapes. The accumulated materials, including interviews, methodology, typeface design, and workshops, will serve as the basis for creating a step-by-step guidebook enriched with conceptual insights and visual material.
