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Italic Text Generator

Italic and bold italic letters in serif and sans, ready to paste into captions and comments

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These are Unicode characters, not fonts, so they paste into bios, captions and display names on almost every platform. Handles are the exception: no major platform accepts them there. X counts most of them as two characters each, and screen readers may spell them out letter by letter or skip them. Check a styled post in the social media character counter before you publish it.

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About Italic Text Generator

The Italic Text Generator slants your text for captions, bios and comments on apps with no formatting. It puts four italic styles first: italic sans, which blends in with most app fonts, serif italic for titles and quotes that should look set apart, and bold italic in both for stronger emphasis. Italics come from the Unicode alphabets made for mathematical variables, so they have no italic digits and numbers stay upright. The lowercase h comes from a different block, as the Planck constant symbol β„Ž, because its slot in the math alphabet was left empty.

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⊞Any DeviceMobile, tablet, desktop

The guide behind this tool

Italics Without a Formatting Bar: What They Mean and What to Use Instead

AP style never used italics because news wires could not send them. Its workaround is still the best guide for platforms that cannot set italic type.

6 min read

How to use Italic Text Generator

  1. 1

    Type the phrase you want in italics, such as a book title, a quote or a word to stress.

  2. 2

    Choose italic sans to blend with the surrounding text, or serif italic to make it stand apart.

  3. 3

    Copy the row and paste it where you need it.

Frequently Asked Questions

Unicode has no italic digits. Italic letters were encoded for algebra, where letters are variables and digits are always upright, so the numbers in your text are left as they are.