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FontSlant

is an option for Style, Cell, and related constructs that specifies how slanted characters in text should be.

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FontSlant

FontSlant

is an option for Style, Cell, and related constructs that specifies how slanted characters in text should be.

Details

  • Standard settings are Plain and Italic.
  • On most computer systems, settings such as FontSlant->"Oblique" can also be used.
  • With the "Oblique" setting, each character typically has the same basic form as with Plain, but is slanted. With the Italic setting, the basic form is different.

Examples

Basic Examples  (4)

Plain fonts:

Wolfram Language code: Style["AaBbCcDd", FontSlant -> Plain]

Italic fonts:

Wolfram Language code: Style["AaBbCcDd", FontSlant -> Italic]

Specify the font slant without using an option:

Wolfram Language code: Style["AaBbCcDd", Italic]

Font slant can be specified in style-related options:

Wolfram Language code: Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 10}, LabelStyle -> (FontSlant -> Italic)]
Wolfram Language code: ContourPlot[Sin[x y], {x, 0, 1}, {y, 0, 1}, FrameStyle -> Italic]
Wolfram Research (1996), FontSlant, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/FontSlant.html (updated 2007).

Text

Wolfram Research (1996), FontSlant, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/FontSlant.html (updated 2007).

CMS

Wolfram Language. 1996. "FontSlant." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2007. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/FontSlant.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (1996). FontSlant. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/FontSlant.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2026_fontslant, author="Wolfram Research", title="{FontSlant}", year="2007", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/FontSlant.html}", note=[Accessed: 13-June-2026]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2026_fontslant, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={FontSlant}, year={2007}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/FontSlant.html}, note=[Accessed: 13-June-2026]}