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Italic means "of or from Italy". The term is most commonly used to refer to the peoples and languages of what is now Italy from the historic period before the Roman Empire. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... Motto Senatus Populusque Romanus (SPQR) The Roman Empire. ...
Italic type, used in typography for emphasis and for other reasons.
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Italic means "Of or from Italy"; the usage is most commonly resticted to talking about the people and languages of what is now Italy from the historic period before the Roman Empire.
An italictypeface is usually related to a roman typeface, but most typographers design two (or more) related faces, rather than simply slanting the roman type in a mechanical way.
Italics indicates a stressing of a particular topic which may be considered important by readers, or which the writer wants to call attention to.
Italic type is a form of type that slants slightly to the right and uses different glyph shapes, used to distinguish or otherwise set off certain words within text.
In media where italicization is not possible (such as a typewriter or handwriting), underlining is typically used instead.
Italic font types were originally invented by the Italian editor Aldo Manuzio for the exclusive use of which for many years he obtained a patent.
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