When QuickDraw requests a font with multiple styles, if the Font Manager does not have a font with all of the styles intrinsic to it, but it has a font with one intrinsic style, the Font Manager returns that font, and QuickDraw applies the additional style or styles when drawing the glyphs. The Font Manager does not apply stylistic variations to a font. Figure 3-1 illustrates the styles that QuickDraw supports as applied to the Helvetica font. There are many other stylistic variations not explicitly supported by QuickDraw, such as strikethrough, that you can implement. Figure 3-1 Stylistic variations You can specify stylistic variations alone or in combination.
Most combinations usually look good only for large font sizes.
It causes each glyph to be repeatedly drawn one bit to the right for extra thickness. Italic adds an italic slant to the glyphs. Underline draws a line below the base line of the glyphs. However, when printing to a PostScript LaserWriter printer, the line is drawn through the descenders. Outline makes a hollow, outlined glyph rather than a solid one.