Italic text generator

Italic letters you can paste anywhere

Italics are the quiet way to add emphasis, and italicized words are the first thing people miss when an app has no formatting button. In a document you press a button, but bios, captions and many chat boxes have no button at all. This generator gives you letters that are already slanted, so your italics come along wherever you paste them.

They come from the same Unicode block as the bold styles, which was designed for writing maths. That's why there are several kinds: a serif italic (𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 in sans, or 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 with serifs) and bold italic versions for stronger emphasis.

Good uses for italic text

• Quotes and lyrics: 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘢 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘥𝘢𝘺 reads as a quote at a glance.
• Titles of books, films and songs in a caption or review.
• A soft tagline under your name in a bio.
• Inner thoughts or asides in a story or a message.

Serif or sans?

Serif italics have small strokes at the ends of letters and look bookish and classic. Sans italics are cleaner and match most app interfaces better. On small phone screens the sans versions are usually easier to read.

Why one letter looks a little different

In the serif italic style, the small h is the character ℎ. Unicode added it long ago as the physics symbol for the Planck constant, so the maths block skips it and uses that older character instead. In some fonts it looks slightly heavier or lighter than its neighbours. If that bothers you, the sans italic style has no gaps.

Keep it readable

Long italic paragraphs are hard to read on a phone, so use italics for a line or two. And as with every styled text, search engines and hashtags won't treat italic letters as normal words, so keep important words plain.

For a handwritten look instead, try the cursive text generator.