This doesn't apply to all italic fonts. Only some. The fonts that don't really have their own italic font; their designer just tilted the letters a little to make it look italic... but also ugly.
(for example, take this font. Copse does not have a good italic base. It's only good for using normally.)
What I hate about those italic fonts is, when you've finally found that awesome, stunning font that is absolutely to die for, when you try to type something in italics the font just explodes in utter failure; the letters are tilted at a bad angle; the font looks... plain; even though there are only a few sentences or words in italic, it ruins the whole page you have written; etc.
The Top 5 Worst Fonts In Italic (out of the good ones) would probably have to include:
(I'll count down from five to build up some suspense)
#5 - Champagne & Limousines
Champagne
& Limousines is a good font, based
off of Century Gothic. But when you try to use italics in this font, it is one
of the worst things you'll ever see in italic font disasters!!! #4– Copse
Copse is a well designed font, although when italic is used , it turns into a jumble of font crap. The other problem with this font is that if you use it in sizes between 0 and 24 pt, it looks even worse.
#3 - Geo Sans Light
When using fonts based off of Twentieth Century Monotype (commonly referred to as Tw Cen MT) you have to be careful.. this is the closest font I would ever come even close to using. But the italics in this whole family of fonts is just hideous. The lowercase j looks bad enough non italic!
#2 – Blackout
Blackout is a great font when not used in italic. The letters become slim, tilted too much to the right and the tasteful black filled in areas in the letters such as a, b, d, o, p, q and r become just dark pools of dizzying, headache starting bad design.
#1 – Comic Sans MS
Okay, okay. I know I said out of the good fonts... but I just had to rank this one first. Comic Sans MS is the king of bad fontwork - worst regular, italic, underline, bold italic, bold italic underline, you get the point—this font just had to be first. The already distasteful design of the font just worsens with every letter of italic.
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