The best italic fonts

One of the best Italic fonts
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The best italic fonts are a great solution if you need to emphasise wording, but they have other uses too. Taking their name from Italian-designed calligraphic typefaces, slanted italic fonts and traditionally used to stress the importance of certain words or to differentiate the titles of things such as novels, movies or scientific names from surrounding text.

However, they can also be used in design for stylistic reasons to create contrast and differentiate different content, for example, captions, from the main text. There are lots of options out there, but below we've made our own pick of the best italic fonts to suit different needs, including both premium and free italic fonts.

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Joe Foley

Joe is a regular freelance journalist and editor at Creative Bloq. He writes news, features and buying guides and keeps track of the best equipment and software for creatives, from video editing programs to monitors and accessories. A veteran news writer and photographer, he now works as a project manager at the London and Buenos Aires-based design, production and branding agency Hermana Creatives. There he manages a team of designers, photographers and video editors who specialise in producing visual content and design assets for the hospitality sector. He also dances Argentine tango.

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