Type Styles
A good Font has several type styles
Later on, in Font Quality, you will learn that most of today's fonts don't offer different type styles. There's just the basic typeface.
All the prevalent DTP programs support making a font electronically italic etc. The font weight is easily changed on a computer, without the need of corresponding type styles.
This is all very handy, but the quality is by far not as good compared to a specially designed type style.
Type styles are classified based on the:
