The italic style of this font category changes the appearance so that the ends of the lower-case letters "curl up" instead of sitting flat on the baseline. serif sans-serif slab-serif Always avoid using all caps with this category of font because the decorative (swash-y) nature of its capital letters will make it hard to read the characters as a complete word. serif sans- serif script The italic style of sans-serif fonts is sometimes called this term because the letters don't actually change or curl up at the ends, b ut rather are simply angled or skewed to the right. roman oblique hum anist Sometimes called the 'axis', this term refers to the angle of the thimer conto urs opposite the thicker conto urs inside the co uiters of letters (particularly O's or Q 's). angle of contour contrast angle angle of stress