The Nepali Times is a well-designed newspaper, and certainly one with the most thoroughly done layout and typography I know in Nepal. I take a semi-professional interest in these matters, and I'd like to ask you about one thing that bothers me exactly because you do your job so well: italics. They bother me because, in the bulk text set in Antiqua, you're not using any. Take, for example, the second word in the recent frontpage article, khukuris. These are not italics, but the regular font having been electronically inclined by your layout program. Are you doing this on purpose? Even if you are, I still find real italics more beautiful, and therefore ask you to employ them. If you're not consciously opposing typographic convention, but this matter has simply escaped your attention, just get the italics font that belongs to your regular bulk Antiqua, and let us readers enjoy its curves! Otherwise, keep up the good work.

Philipp Pratap Thapa
Lazimpat

Layout guy, Kiran Maharjan, replies: It was an oversight. Bulk text italics will be in Antiqua. Thanks for the reminder.