Italic

Definitions

1. A typeface in which the letters slant to the right.
2. The Italic family taken as a whole.
3. An oblique handwriting style, such as used by Italian calligraphers of the Renaissance.

Equivalents

Examples

“Names of vessels, as the Kearsarge or the Alabama, are frequently put⟳ in italic.”

“[…] ROBERT GRANJON, possibly in collaboration with CLAUDE GARAMOND, had created an italic which matched Garamond Roman.”

“Spenser uses two different scripts: an Elizabethan secretary hand for English texts, and an italic 'mixed' with secretary graphs for Latin texts […]”

“The centum families include⟳ Celtic, Germanic, Greek, and Italic.”

CEFR level