How to design Serbian Cyrillic PART 2 — True Italics

Igor Petrovic
Igor Petrovic Posts: 300
edited November 6 in Technique and Theory
I've just published the "Serbian Cyrillic PART 2" article on my blog. The first one was about upright, and this second one is about true italics:

https://nostalgicdolphin.com/blog-post-3/

Italics proved to be harder to describe, taking a month to assemble this instructional study. The thing is that italics are still not strictly established in every aspect, so I had to research historical sources, the official orthography, other Slavic-Cyrillic, modern studies of Serbian handwriting, and personal opinions of type designers and common people.

In addition to being two blog posts, I am also considering putting these two articles into one downloadable PDF which would cost a few bucks. For those who haven't seen the first part, here is the link for it:

https://nostalgicdolphin.com/blog-post-1/


Comments

  • Thank you Igor, very good.
  • Thanks Andreas, I appreciate it!
  • Thanks, Igor. It was been a very useful resource. By the way, so to speak, Serbian б is like a Greek delta? 
  • John Hudson
    John Hudson Posts: 3,215
    so to speak, Serbian б is like a Greek delta? 
    In writing, the ductus is similar

    but in Cyrillic the top is always quite horizontal, while in Greek it may also angle downwards



  • John Savard
    John Savard Posts: 1,132
    It's interesting that some of the Serbian Cyrillic italic forms are used in Russian handwriting, even if not in Russian italics. And, yes, this means that they may be found in the italics of some Russian typefaces too.
  • @John Hudson
    I saw that, so I compared it to a delta.