Italics
Also called: italic
Italic or italic means that letters are printed slightly slanted to the right. Besides being slanted, the letters are also more graceful. This is because this font variant is based on handwritten calligraphy before the advent of printing.
The oblique letter style was developed in Italy to make printing letters resemble documents previously written in chancellor's script. In these handwritten texts, the letters were written together so that documents could be reproduced more quickly.
In contemporary typography, italics are widely used, among other things, to emphasize words and to indicate titles or proper names. In this respect, it complements the use of punctuation. To give emphasis to a word, it is sometimes made bold instead of italic.
Italics should not be confused with oblique. The similarity between italics and oblique is that in both, the letters slope slightly to the right. The difference is that oblique written letters are otherwise identical to the roman variant within the typeface.