More pronounced italics?

Is it possible to make the italics more pronounced? Right now the difference between regular and italicized text is almost negligible.

Regular
Italics

1 Answer
Dec 18, 2017

I'm not sure that this is possible...

Explanation:

... without changing the font used on the site, but I'll ask.

As far as I can tell, the current font doesn't have bold and italic variants installed, i.e. we're working with faux bold and faux italic here.

Basically, a separate font for these styles must be installed in order to get proper bold and italic text, otherwise, the editor will simply make the letters thicker to get bold text or slant them to get italic text.

You can give this post a read for more info on how faux bold and faux italic look like.

So my guess is that this particular font that the site uses now doesn't have proper bold and italic font files installed, which means that the team would have to see if they can find any that they can use.

It is possible that this font doesn't have bold and italic variants available, which is probably why the team didn't install them to begin with. If that's the case, then the team would have to replace the font completely.