In English it is pronounced with the accent on the first syllable, with the a pronounced as in either pal or pall . In other languages it may as well be pronounced and declined according to the orthography of the language. So Malvern Italic is also narrower than the upright variant. I decided to use the Windows 3.1 encoding, which is a superset of ISO 8859-1. Other than in TeX, which uses a base letter and an accent to form an accented letter, all accented characters had to be assembled into separate glyphs for this character set.
Oldstyle figures are intended for use inside text, they blend more harmoniously with the words.
The oldstyle numerals are proportional. The small caps fonts have oldstyle figures.