La bastardilla es un estilo de tipografía en la que todos los caracteres están inclinados. El término «bastardilla» se utiliza solo en el ámbito de la tipografía, ya que no es usual en el habla popular ni en la académica; en su lugar se emplea el término «cursiva». Existen tres tipos de letra cursiva: \n* Oblicua: la letra romana (también llamada normal, redonda o blanca) inclinada, sin rediseño. \n* Itálica: más caligráfica y con el ductus (trazo de la pluma) interrumpido. \n* Cursiva manuscrita o manuscrita (o cursiva propiamente dicha): extensión del estilo de escritura «cursiva», aún más caligráfico que la itálica debido a su ductus continuo.

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In typography, italic type is a cursive font based on a stylized form of calligraphic handwriting. Owing to the influence from calligraphy, such fonts normally slant slightly to the right. Italics are a way to emphasise key points in a printed text, or when quoting a speaker a way to show which words they stressed. One manual of English usage described italics as "the print equivalent of underlining". The name comes from the fact that calligraphy-inspired Typefaces were first designed in Italy, to replace documents traditionally written in a handwriting style called chancery hand. Ludovico Arrighi and Aldus Manutius (both between the 15th and 16th centuries) were the main type designers involved in this process at the time. Different glyph shapes from roman type are usually used — another influence from calligraphy — and upper-case letters may have swashes, flourishes inspired by ornate calligraphy. An alternative is oblique type, in which the type is slanted but the letterforms do not change shape: this less elaborate approach is used by many sans-serif typefaces.

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