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3 TYPEFACES & TYPOGRAPHY 3.4 TYPOGRAPHIC PRINCIPLES
SASOL CI MANUAL
3.4.4 Extra characters
Italics
Numerals
The use of italics is restricted. They may
only be used for titles of books, newspapers,
articles and stories within a sentence on
their own without explanation (Figure A).
Old-style figures have ascenders and
descenders which make them more
elegant within a line of body text.
Proportional oldstyle
However, titles that appear within larger
works are not italicised but are, rather, set
off in quotation marks (Figure B).
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Figure A
Proportional Lining Figures work well
alongside all caps because they are about
the same size as the capital letters and sit
on the baseline with them.
‘The Saturday edition of the Limerick
Leader was always on the streets
by Friday afternoon.’
‘“An Irishman’s Diary” in the Irish Times
is sometimes interesting.’
Tabular oldstyle
The use of special characters is as follows:
Punctuation is used to qualify, quantify
and organise information.
Punctuation
(!.,;:?…‘’“”)
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Proportional lining
Figure B
Special characters
Tabular Lining Figures all occupy the same
set width and work best when rows and
columns of numbers need to align such
as in tables, financial documents, and
numbered lists.
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Diacritical marks are used to define
how a letter is stressed or sounded.
When numbers appear in a body of text,
proportional old-style figures must be
used to increase legibility e.g. 1,5 million
tons. When numbers appear in a table,
Tabular Figure Lining must be used so
that the numbers sit directly beneath
each other, e.g: Million 1 500, 2 100.
Tabular lining
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Diacritical marks
`´ˆ˜¨˚àáâãäå
Pictograms, such as currency units,
provide shorthand information.
Pictograms
$¢£¤¥₤€
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