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Font style

The font style class sets the font-style property. It adds or removes italic styling of text.

View GCDS typography guidance to choose the right font style for your context.

Overview

CSS Shortcut class Applied style 
font-normal
 
font-style: normal;
 
font-italic
 
font-style: italic;

Examples

Normal
font-normal

This element displays text without italic styling and is used in most cases.

<p class="font-normal">
  This element displays text without italic styling and is used in most cases.
</p>

Italic
font-italic

This element displays text with italic styling. It’s used sparingly for short text strings to limit cognitive load.

<p class="font-italic">
  This element displays text with italic styling. It’s used sparingly for short text strings to limit cognitive load.
</p>

Conditional styling Apply this style to specific screen sizes Use a responsive layout prefix to apply this class only to a specified screen size. The available breakpoints are:

  • xs: > 480px
  • sm: > 640px
  • md: > 768px
  • lg: > 1024px
  • xl: > 1280px
  
<div class="xs:font-italic ...">
  ...
</div>

Learn more about the responsive layout prefix.

2026-02-12