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title: Font Style Property
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## Font Style Property

`font-style` property lets you to change the style of font meaning you can make font italicized. This property accepts following values:

* `normal` - Default value.
* `italic` - Font gets italicized by selecting the font that is classified as italic in its font family.
* `oblique` - Font that classified as oblique in its font family gets used.  

`Italic` and `oblique` may look similar. According to [MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/) *oblique are just sloped version of the regular face*.  
You can also specify angle for the lean degree of font when providing `oblique` value. If angle is not provided, 14 degrees will be used as default.

#### More Information:

* [MDN - font-style](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-style)
* [CSS-Tricks - font-style](https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/f/font-style/)