Italic Text Generator

5 styles. App compatibility: not tested yet. Screen readers may read styled letters one by one.

Italic text from this page uses Unicode italic letters, so it keeps its slant in bios, comments and posts that have no italic button.

One letter is special: the italic small h lives in a different Unicode block (β„Ž, U+210E), and the generator uses that character so the word stays complete.

Italic or oblique

A true italic changes letter shapes, for example a single-storey a, while an oblique is the upright letter slanted. The Unicode italic letters here follow the italic shapes used in mathematics. The sans-serif italic is closer to an oblique.

Italic in WhatsApp

In a WhatsApp message, put an underscore on both sides: _italic_. Use the Unicode version only where WhatsApp formatting does not apply, such as your name or about text.

Questions

Are italic numbers available?

No. Unicode has bold and monospace digits but no italic digits, so numbers stay upright.

Why is one letter different in italic?

The italic h was added to Unicode earlier, in the Letterlike Symbols block, so the math italic set left a gap for it. The generator fills the gap with that character.

By Alton Vieira Β· Updated . How the styles work.