Basic Font Attributes - Font Style Page © RenderX 2000 XSL Formatting Objects Test Suite Basic Font Attributes - Font Style This test contains examples of italic and slanted variants for fonts. Normally, italic will coincide with oblique, but we should test both of them. Backslant is rarely available; but, for the sake of completeness, we test even this one. For Helvetica: This is upright, this is backslant, this is italic, and this is oblique. This is bold upright, This is bold backslant, this is bold italic, and this is bold oblique. For Times: This is upright, this is backslant, this is italic, and this is oblique. This is bold upright, This is bold backslant, this is bold italic, and this is bold oblique. For Courier: This is upright, this is backslant, this is italic, and this is oblique. This is bold upright, This is bold backslant, this is bold italic, and this is bold oblique.