Use italic text sparingly Usability Guideline
Description
Use italic text sparingly - for one or two words or a short phrase.
Help
Keep runs of styled text to less than 70 characters. When used well, styled text draws attention to important words, but also decreases reading speed by almost twenty percent.
Applicable standards
Note: The guidelines.usability.gov website has been down since July 2020, although www.usability.gov is still operating and the PDF version of the guidelines is still available.
Change history
- 6.53 Jul 2024 Don’t fire for hidden elements.
- 5.2 May 2013 Updated priority to match April 2013 version of guidelines.
- 4.0 Jun 2010 Changed limit from 50 to 70.
- 1.0 Feb 2007 Added.
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Rule ID: UseGov11.10