font-style

Summary

The font-style CSS descriptor allows authors to specify font styles for the fonts specified in the @font-face rule.

For a particular font family, authors can download various font faces which correspond to the different styles of the same font family, and then use the font-style descriptor to explicitly specify the font face's style. The values for the CSS descriptor is same as that of its corresponding font property.

Related at-rule	`@font-face`
Initial value	`normal`
Media	all
Computed value	as specified
Canonical order	the unique non-ambiguous order defined by the formal grammar

Syntax

font-style: normal;
font-style: italic;
font-style: oblique;

Values

normal
Selects the normal version of the font-family.

italic
Specifies that font-face is an italicized version of the normal font .

oblique
Specifies that the font-face is an artificially sloped version of the normal font.

Formal syntax

normal | italic | oblique

Examples

As an example, consider the garamond font family, in its normal form, we get the following result:

@font-face {
  font-family: garamond;
  src: url('garamond.ttf');
}

unstyled Garamond

The italicized version of this text uses the same glyphs present in the unstyled version, but they are artificially sloped by a few degrees.

artificially sloped garamond

On the other hand, if a true italicized version of the font family exists, we can include it in the src descriptor and specify the font style as italic, so that it is clear that the font is italicized. True italics use different glyphs and are a bit different from their upright counterparts, having some unique features and generally have a rounded and calligraphic quality. These fonts are specially created by font designers and are not artificially sloped.

@font-face {
  font-family: garamond;
  src: url('garamond-italic.ttf');
  font-style: italic;
}

italic garamond

Specifications

Specification	Status	Comment
CSS Fonts Module Level 3 The definition of 'unicode-range' in that specification.	Candidate Recommendation	Initial definition

Feature	Firefox (Gecko)	Chrome	Internet Explorer	Opera	Safari
Basic support	3.5 (1.9.1)	4.0	4.0	10.0	3.1

Feature	Android	Firefox Mobile (Gecko)	IE Mobile	Opera Mini	Opera Mobile	Safari Mobile
Basic support	(Yes)	1.0 (1.9.1)	?	Not supported	10.0	(Yes)