Overstrike 779807 182875774 2008-01-08T02:54:49Z Terraxos 794371 added 'unreferenced' template {{for|the word processing mode where newly typed characters replace existing characters ('''Overtype''')|Insert key}} {{for|the typographical presentation of words with a line through the centre|Strikethrough}} {{for|the term in numismatics|Overstrike (numismatics)}} {{unreferenced|date=January 2008}} In typography, '''overstrike''' is a method of printing characters that are missing from the printer's [[character set]]. It was widely used around early 1990s. The character was created by placing one character on the another one — for example, overstriking "'''L'''" with "'''-'''" resulted in printing a "'''Ł'''" character. Many font renderers in computer programs invent missing bold characters by overstriking the normal character with itself, slightly horizontally offset. The horizontal offset is essential, since unlike a typewriter, 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 undesirable from a typographic point of view; some high end typesetting programs go so far as to refuse to fake bold in this way. [[Category:Typography]] {{Publish-stub}} {{typography-stub}}