what are bastard typefaces,how it is used,its merits and demerits?

Question

this question centers on newspaper and magazine production in the field of masscommunication.

Answer 1

Even outside of its illicit sexual connotation, the word "bastard" typically refers to something inferior. In printing, a typeface that mixes two original fonts is a "bastard." In book publishing, a version that botches the original is "bastardized." In a bird's wing, a "bastard" is the wing part that corresponds to a thumb, the part with only a few short feathers. And in botany when an inferior plant resembles a better plant, it's a "bastard."

The word "bastard" seems to blame the victim. For humans, a "bastard" is the baby conceived on the wrong side of the blanket, the outside. The insiders are usually the original stock, the better class, the better race, or the legitimate. But bastards are illegitimate-ill bred and ill favored. Often they were those slave children whose darker features could so closely resemble those of the white master. A bastard often reminded the master's wife and neighbors of Christian hypocrisy and maybe something even worse. So for them, it was easier to blame "the dirty rotten bastard" or to just keep things quiet. But then, along came DNA. And we began to wonder whether some of our founding fathers fathered foundlings. In that era some folks called a "bastard" "a natural child." Since "natural" is never artificial, always real, ironically, being a natural child nowadays is what makes an illegitimate bastard legitimate-and very real.