Oblique type
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Oblique type is a form of type that slants slightly to the right, used in the same manner as italic type. Unlike italic type, however, it does not use different glyph shapes; it uses the same glyphs as roman type, except distorted. Oblique and italic type are often confused.
The start of this confusion possibly appeared when Adrian Frutiger named the slanted versions of his typefaces Univers and Frutiger as italic. Following this viewpoint, sans-serif typefaces very rarely have true italic versions. The Gill Sans typeface is one of these rare exceptions. All of the sans-serif Windows Vista typefaces have true italic versions.
