Italic Text Generator

Q: What is the difference between Italic and Italic sans?

Italic has serifs, the small strokes at the ends of letters, like a printed book. Italic sans has none, so it looks closer to the text in most apps.

This italic text generator turns what you type into four kinds of slanted letters: serif and sans, plain and bold. Tap one to copy it, then paste it into a bio, post or chat that has no italic button. Free, with no sign-up.

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Italic
𝐼𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝑡𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟
Italic sans
𝘐𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘵𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳
Bold italic
𝑰𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒄 𝒕𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒓
Bold italic sans
𝙄𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙘 𝙩𝙚𝙭𝙩 𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙧

How to use the italic text generator

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Type your text
Type or paste into Your text. The four italic styles change as you type.
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Copy an italic style
Tap Italic, Italic sans, Bold italic or Bold italic sans to copy it. Press All to see the other styles.
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Paste it in
Paste it where you want it. To slant one word in a sentence, type only that word, copy it, and paste it where it goes.

How the italic text generator works

Most bios, names, captions and comments have no italic button. Italic text gets around that with different characters: Unicode has whole alphabets of slanted letters, made for math, where an italic 𝑥 is a variable. Because they are ordinary characters, they stay italic wherever you paste them, and other people see them slanted too.

You get four styles. Italic has serifs, like italics in a book, and Italic sans is the cleaner kind most apps use for their own text. Bold italic and Bold italic sans are the same, only heavier.

The 4 styles in this group, shown with "Hello 2026"
Style	Sample	What changes
Bold italic	𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐 2026	Letters only; numbers stay plain
Bold italic sans	𝙃𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙤 2026	Letters only; numbers stay plain
Italic	𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑜 2026	Letters only; numbers stay plain
Italic sans	𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰 2026	Letters only; numbers stay plain

When to use italic text

Italics set a few words apart without shouting the way bold does:

Titles of books, films, shows and albums.
A word you stress, the one you would say a little louder.
Thoughts and asides in a caption or a story.
Words from another language, such as a name of a dish.

Italic numbers, the letter h and accents

Unicode has no italic numbers, so digits stay plain in all four styles. For styled numbers, use Bold or Bold sans on the bold text generator.

In Italic, the small h comes from a different part of Unicode: the space for it in the italic alphabet was left empty, because the same letter already existed as ℎ, the symbol for Planck's constant. Some fonts draw it slightly differently from the letters around it. The other three styles have their own h.

Lowercase letters keep their accents: é, ñ and ç come out italic with the mark still on them. Capitals with a mark on top, such as É, stay plain, because common fonts don't show the mark over a slanted capital.

Apps that already have italics

Some apps can slant a message on their own. There, use their way, because it stays plain text that search and screen readers understand:

Discord: one asterisk or underscore on each side, as in *text* or _text_. See Discord fonts.
WhatsApp: one underscore on each side, as in _text_. See WhatsApp fonts.
Names, bios and most posts: there is usually no formatting at all, so copied italic letters are the way to go. That includes LinkedIn posts, where LinkedIn's help lists italics only for articles.

Keep italics short

Screen readers often read italic letters one by one by their character names, or skip them, and search inside an app may not find an italic word. A long paragraph in italics is also harder to read on a phone. Slant a title or a few words and keep the rest plain.

Every other style, from cursive to bubble letters, is in the full list of copy and paste fonts.