Italic text generator

Italics without an italic button

Most social apps strip formatting, so text you italicize in a document arrives upright. Unicode includes complete italic alphabets for mathematical writing, and the generator swaps your letters for those characters, so the slant survives the paste.

Serif italic looks like a book or a magazine, sans italic matches the plain fonts of most apps, and bold italic adds weight to a word that should stand out.

What stays upright

Italic covers the letters A to Z. These italic alphabets have no digits, so numbers stay upright, and accented letters, punctuation, emoji and other alphabets stay as you typed them.

The small h in serif italic is borrowed from the Planck constant symbol, because Unicode left the usual slot empty. It looks like any other italic h, but a screen reader may announce it differently.

Where italic text helps

Use italics for a short phrase. A long paragraph in slanted letters is harder to read, and screen readers may spell out the special characters or skip them. Italic text helps with:

• A book or film title in a caption.
• A quote or an aside in a LinkedIn or Facebook post.
• One word to stress in a message, instead of writing it in capitals.
• Emphasis in a bio, where there are no formatting options.