Italic

Italic means "of or from Italy". The term is most commonly used to refer to the peoples and languages of what is now Italy from the historic period before the Roman Empire.

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• Italic languages
• Old Italic alphabet

Italic type is used in typography for emphasis and for other reasons. Italic printing and italic handwriting are sometimes taught as more natural or easier forms of writing.

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Italy: Italy (Italian: Repubblica Italiana or Italia) is a country in southern Europe. It comprises a boot-shaped peninsula and two large islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia, and shares its northern alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia. The independent countries...

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Italic type: Italic type is a form of type that slants slightly to the right and uses different glyph shapes, used to distinguish or otherwise set off certain words within text. The term oblique is also used when referring to the italic of a sans-serif font where the slant is the only significant change in the ...