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Creative Glossary > Graphic Design > Stress

Term Details
Term:	Stress
Subcategory:	General
Definition:	Stress is the axis that the strokes are created around in a typeface; stress may be vertical or oblique (positive or negative). Stress is not the angle of the strokes. Italics, for example, are created with slanted strokes. However, italics do not necessarily contain oblique stress.

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