Where are bold and italic?

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
August 14, 2022
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hi,

i am not finding the bold & italic font style in my illustrator 2021. how to find that?

Correct answer Ton Frederiks

Other applications fake the bold and italic styles if they are missing.

You can do that in Illustrator as well by using the shear tool to fake italic and adding an additional stroke below the fill in the Appearance Panel, but don't let the font police catch you 🙂

Kurt Gold

Community Expert

Ton,

Have you also found a way to make fake italic type for just some words inside a type object?

The Shear tool won't help in this case.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

Kurt, no, but maybe your character splitter can help with that.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/how-to-break-apart-in-illustrator/m-p/12737360#M309341

Ton Frederiks

Correct answer

Community Expert

Other applications fake the bold and italic styles if they are missing.

You can do that in Illustrator as well by using the shear tool to fake italic and adding an additional stroke below the fill in the Appearance Panel, but don't let the font police catch you 🙂

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

Illustrator does not have a bold and italic style, only if the font has a bold and italic style and those are installed, you can select them.

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