Word Meaning

Meaning of italics

- Relating to Italy or to its people.
- Applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters do not stand upright, but slope toward the right; -- so called because dedicated to the States of Italy by the inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500.
- An Italic letter, character, or type (see Italic, a., 2.); -- often in the plural; as, the Italics are the author's. Italic letters are used to distinguish words for emphasis, importance, antithesis, etc. Also, collectively, Italic letters.
- of Italic

Crossword clue for italics

- Command + i, on a Mac
- Emphatic typeface
- Inclined letter style
- It takes Al, I see, to produce sloping letter
- Italian dumps an early church style of font
- Rebellious Socialist dismissing SOS for rightleaning text
- Slanted (typeface)
- Slanted font
- Slanting Italian tower actually leaned in construction originally
- Slanting type
- Sloping print
- Sloping type
- Sloping type seen back in council at inquest
- Typeface with slanting letters
- Bold alternative for text
- Characters with a leaning to the right
- Characters with a tendency to the right
- Print Used For Emphasis
- Printed letters with just the right slant?
- Sloping print
- Sloping type
- Sloping typeface
- They put a different slant on things
- Type with sloping letters
- Type with the right inclination