---
title: italic()
framework: swiftui
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Method
path: swiftui/font/italic()
---

# italic()

Adds italics to the font.

## Declaration

```swift
func italic() -> Font
```

## Mentioned in

Applying custom fonts to text

## See Also

### Styling a font

- [bold()](swiftui/font/bold().md)
- [monospaced()](swiftui/font/monospaced().md)
- [monospacedDigit()](swiftui/font/monospaceddigit().md)
- [smallCaps()](swiftui/font/smallcaps().md)
- [lowercaseSmallCaps()](swiftui/font/lowercasesmallcaps().md)
- [uppercaseSmallCaps()](swiftui/font/uppercasesmallcaps().md)
- [weight(_:)](swiftui/font/weight(_:).md)
- [width(_:)](swiftui/font/width(_:).md)
- [Font.Width](swiftui/font/width.md)
- [leading(_:)](swiftui/font/leading(_:).md)
- [Font.Leading](swiftui/font/leading.md)