ItalicSlant

Many complete font sets contain an oblique or italics font. For example:

• Helvetica
• Helvetica Oblique
• Helvetica Bold
• Helvetica Oblique

... that tell the font engine exactly how the font should appear when italicized. Some fonts, especially serif fonts, even include a very different – often more romantic – style for its italicized faces.

However many fonts don't include their own italics. In this case, the font engine has to approximate it. To do this, it simply slants the non-italics versions of the font. So 'Helvetica' would become Helvetica with the top pushed over (usually to the right).

The ItalicSlant setting lets you specify how much the font engine slants fonts without their own italics. Some examples:

• 0 is the default slant
• -5 would be less slant than default
• 5 would be more slant than the default

... you can even achieve a backwards slant with a high enough negative number. A few fonts do indeed have backwards slanting italics.

Example use:

[General]
ItalicSlant=-2