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where repeating a letter in exactly the same space will make it darker, most modern printers will not darken repeated "strikes" to the same space. Actual bold fonts are designed with some features thicker and others the same size as a regular font, so the use of this "fake bold" is considered
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Left: letter A in regular font. Middle: Two letter A's superimposed, one of which is slightly offset to the side. Right: Resulting "fake bold" character
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characters by overstriking the normal character with itself, slightly horizontally offset. The horizontal offset is essential since, unlike a
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do not; however Collabora Online and LibreOffice allow the use of the characters X and / (forward slash) to overstrike, using the
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includes several characters that were printed by overstriking other characters on printing terminals such as the
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undesirable from a typographic point of view. Overstriking with an offset was also used to created "
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includes a function key that allows any two characters to be superimposed.
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are still used to depict characters which cannot be shown otherwise.
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Algorithmic Typewriter Art: Can 1000 Words Paint a Picture?
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Clash of Symbols: A ride through the riches of glyphs
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Technique of printing two characters atop one another
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