A trueitalic font (bottom).Named after the nation ofItaly, as it was first used by an Italian printer,Aldo Manuzio, around 1500. LiterallyItaly +-ic.
italic (notcomparable)
- (typography, of atypeface orfont) Designed to resemble ahandwriting style developed in Italy in the 16th century.
- (typography, of a typeface or font) Havingletters thatslant orlean to the right;oblique.
The text was impossible to read: every other word was underlined or in a bold oritalic font.
An oblique "italic" font.- The sense of “oblique” is more recent, and still sometimes criticized, but is now by far the more common sense in everyday use.
designed to resemble a handwriting style
having a slant to the right
italic (pluralitalics)
Calligraphy initalic.- (typography) A typeface in which the lettersslant to theright.
1902, Theodore Low DeVinne,The Practice of Typography: Correct Composition[1], page104:Names of vessels, as the Kearsarge or the Alabama, are frequently put initalic.
1983, Ida M. Kimber,The Art of Lettering[2], translation of original by Albert Kapr, page329:[…] ROBERT GRANJON, possibly in collaboration with CLAUDE GARAMOND, had created anitalic which matched Garamond Roman.
- An obliquehandwriting style, such as used by Italian calligraphers of the Renaissance.
1990, Albert Charles Hamilton,The Spenser Encyclopedia[3],→ISBN, page345:Spenser uses two different scripts: an Elizabethan secretary hand for English texts, and anitalic 'mixed' with secretary graphs for Latin texts[…]
typeface whose letters slant to the right
Borrowed fromFrenchitalique, fromLatinitalicus. Bysurface analysis,Italia +-ic.
italic m orn (feminine singularitalică,masculine pluralitalici,feminine and neuter pluralitalice)
- italic
- Italic
