[thegeomaster]

Just a minor nitpick: you are probably referring to an oblique style, not italic. Italic style implies a calligraphic handwriting look-alike, and is way more common with serif typefaces. Oblique style is just glyphs tilted to right, and I think that's what you meant here. No offense intended, of course.

[swah]

"No offense intended?" Even the system font selector uses "italic" ...

[thegeomaster]

Yes, but CSS, for instance, uses 'oblique'. You can look up the definitions yourself if you don't trust me...