Editing Emphasis (typography) (section)

{{short description|Typographical distinction}}
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[[File:Fraktur.png|thumb|350px|Example of black letter emphasis using the technique of changing fonts]]
In [[typography]], '''emphasis''' is the strengthening of words in a text with a [[font]] in a different style from the rest of the text, to highlight them.<ref name="Twyman">{{cite journal|last1=Twyman|first1=Michael|title=The Bold Idea: The Use of Bold-looking Types in the Nineteenth Century|journal=Journal of the Printing Historical Society|volume=22|issue=107–143}}</ref> It is the equivalent of [[Stress (linguistics)#Prosodic stress|prosody stress]] in speech.