Long description for italic forms Long description for italic forms This image illustrates different types and their italic or slanted version. It shows 8 lines of text: sans-serif, sans-serif-oblique, sans-serif-bold, sans-serif-bold-oblique, serif-bold, serif-bold-italic, serif, serif-italic. We see that italic glyphs are not just slanted with respect to the roman counterparts, but differ in shape as well. Return to image.