Italic type. In typography, italic type is a cursive font based on a stylized form of calligraphic handwriting. Owing to the influence from calligraphy, italics normally slant slightly to the right. Italics are a way to emphasise key points in a printed text, or when quoting a speaker a way to show which words they stressed. One manual of English usage described italics as the print equivalent of underlining. The name comes from the fact that calligraphy-inspired typefaces were first designed in Italy, to
According to the agency, it will no longer have specific limitations or guidelines associated with net or gross adjustments. âThe appraiserâs adjustments must reflect the marketâs reaction (that is, market based adjustments) to the difference in the properties [of chosen comparables],â according to Fannie Mae.
Since property values rise and fall over time, annual adjustments ensure an assessment reflects market value-in-use of a property. Assessments are used as a way to divide an individual's burden to the overall levy that is established by each government unit.