## On emphasis

In typography, emphasis is the strengthening of words using a font in a different style from the surrounding text. This includes italic, bold, underlined, and strikethrough typefaces.

### Italic type

The italic type is a cursive font based on a stylized form of calligraphic handwriting. You can use italics to emphasize important points, write the titles of certain creative works, cite foreign words, or quote a speaker.

### Bold type

A bold font weight makes the letters thicker than the surrounding text. It is often used to highlight keywords. For example, entries in printed dictionaries are usually marked in bold.

### Underlined type

Professional typesetting rarely underlines words for emphasis. Doing so is considered too distracting. Underlining is, however, often used with typewriters, in handwriting, and with some non-alphabetic scripts.