Italic type
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In typography, italic type is a cursive font based on a stylised form of calligraphic handwriting. Along with blackletter and roman type, it served as one of the major typefaces in the history of West
Aldus Manutius' italic, in a 1501 edition of Virgil. Italic is only used for the lower case and not for capitals.
Sample of Niccoli's cursive script, which developed into Italic type
Catherine of Siena, Epistole ("Letters"), published in Venice by Aldo Manuzio in September 1500: illustrated table in which appear the first words ever printed in italics: iesus, inside the heart in the left hand and iesu dolce iesu amore inside the book in the right hand.
A page from La Operina by Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi, showing early "chancery italic" typeface
Oblique type
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Oblique type is a form of type that slants slightly to the right, used for the same purposes as italic type. Unlike italic type, however, it does not use different glyph shapes; it uses the same glyph
Italic type
…style of type used entirely separately from roman type, but they have come to be used in conjunction – most fonts now come with a roman type and an oblique version (generally called "italic" though often not true italics). In this usage, italics are a way to emphasise key points in a printed text, to…
A simply slanted (L) and corrected (R) example of oblique type
Unusual backslanted oblique lettering on a Norwegian banknote of 1807