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A single typeface can encompass a range of distinct styles, including its regular, italic, oblique, and small caps forms.

Three styles from one family stacked in blue Petrov Sans — “Roman” light and upright, “Italic” slanted, “Black” very heavy — with a short pink vertical tick beside each, one per style: the individual cuts a typeface family offers.

A single typeface can encompass a range of distinct styles, including its regular, italic, oblique, and small caps forms. For further variations, see also: stylistic sets.

In CSS, the font-style property is most commonly used to switch between normal (i.e., upright) and italic or oblique type.

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Iveta Stoyanova

Iveta is the Social Media & Community Manager at Fontfabric. With a background in Rhetoric & Speech Communication, she writes about the human side of typography, the inspiration behind new typefaces, choosing the right font for your project, and font licensing.