A typeface with letters slanted slightly to the right. Italic type is used to emphasize words as well as for decoration. Most, but not all, fonts have an italic typeface. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR ...

The restyled New York Times homepage features italicized headlines–a bold move given that a modest body of research on digital type suggests using italics with caution. You can see just about anything ...

Aldus Manutius is not a household name in the same way that his predecessor by a few decades, the printing-press visionary Johannes Gutenberg, is. Yet by all accounts Manutius (1455-1515) was the ...

Select the text, then use the formatting menu to strikethrough, bold, italicize, etc. Special characters have the same effect (e.g., ~text~ will strikethrough on WhatsApp). You can mix them to ...

Few things seems quite as simple as text. You want an "A" to appear on the page, just type "A". Use bold to darken things up or italics to lean it to the right a bit. But the technology that underlies ...