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Oblique:

Oblique is defined as sloped roman edition of a typeface, frequently used in position of a true italic edition.

Old Face:

Old Face is modeled on the humanistic miniscule, Old Face typefaces were formerly written with a average thick wide pen and hence displayed small stroke contrast and the triangular serifs. Some old face examples are garamond, palatino, aldus.

OPI:

OPI means that the protocol developed together by Aldus and Linotype-Hell for replacing low-resolution images (opi image references in layouts) with their creative high-resolution data. Now OPI used generally in pure PostScript systems.

Orientation:

This process is the way in which type is laid down on a orientation page. Orientation can be described as portrayal (vertical), inverse portrait, landscape (sideways), or inverse landscape (sideways, upside down).