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Cursive vs Italic - What's the difference?

cursive | italic |

Italic is a synonym of cursive.



As adjectives the difference between cursive and italic

is that cursive is running; flowing while italic is designed to resemble a handwriting style developed in Italy in the 16th century.

As nouns the difference between cursive and italic

is that cursive is a cursive character, letter or font while italic is a typeface in which the letters slant to the right.

As a proper noun Italic is

an Italic language.

cursive

English

(wikipedia cursive)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Running; flowing.
  • Having successive letters joined together.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cursive character, letter or font.
  • A manuscript written in cursive characters.

    • Antonyms

    * print

    Derived terms

    * cursively * cursiveness

    See also

    * handwriting * italic * longhand * shorthand ----

    italic

    English

    (wikipedia italic)

    Alternative forms

    * italick

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (typography, of a typeface or font) Designed to resemble a handwriting style developed in Italy in the 16th century.
  • (typography, of a typeface or font) Having letters that slant or lean to the right; oblique.
    • The text was impossible to read: every other word was underlined or in a bold or italic font.

    Usage notes

    * The sense of “oblique” is more recent, and still sometimes criticized, but is now by far the more common sense in everyday use.

    Synonyms

    * cursive * oblique

    Antonyms

    * (oblique) upright

    Derived terms

    * italicize * italics

    Related terms

    * roman * boldface

    Noun

  • (en noun)
    • really calligraphy? -->
  • (typography) A typeface in which the letters slant to the right.
  • * {{quote-book, 1902, Theodore Low DeVinne, The Practice of Typography: Correct Composition citation
    • , passage=Names of vessels, as the Kearsarge or the Alabama, are frequently put in italic .}}
  • * {{quote-book, 1983, Ida M. Kimber, The Art of Lettering, by=Albert Kapr citation
    • , passage=
  • An oblique handwriting style, such as used by Italian calligraphers of the Renaissance.
  • * {{quote-book, 1990, Albert Charles Hamilton, The Spenser Encyclopedia citation
    • , passage=Spenser uses two different scripts: an Elizabethan secretary hand for English texts, and an italic 'mixed' with secretary graphs for Latin texts

    See also

    * Italian * Italic * italical