roman

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈɹəʊmən/

Noun

uncountable archaic

(typography) One of the main three types used for the Latin alphabet (the others being italics and blackletter), in which the ascenders are mostly straight. / (archaic) A novel.

Japanese Meaning

（タイポグラフィー）ローマン体：ラテン文字の主要な三つの書体のひとつで、主に直線的な上昇部を持つ書体。 / （古語）小説

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The designer preferred roman over italics for the book's body text because its straight ascenders improved readability.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

デザイナーは書籍の本文には斜体よりもローマン体を選び、まっすぐなアセンダーが読みやすさを高めた。

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(archaic) A novel.

Samuel Johnson, writing in his Dictionary of the English Language (1755), [defined] "novel [as] a small tale, generally of love." To modern sensibilities, Johnson's novel resembles more closely the novella in dimension and the romance in substance. … [T]he term romance, or roman, once interchangeable with novel in English, retains the meaning of novel in Germany, France, Russia, and most of Europe, while in the anglophone world it has been demoted to frivolity.

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