In typography, we speak of “emphasis” when a section of a text needs to be visually brought forward or separated from the rest while keeping the paragraph’s setting, such as for a work’s title, comments, or a quote.

The most common way to create an emphasis in Latin based languages is to set the text in italic. Other scripts such as Chinese Hanzi and Japanese don’t have italics, and use different ways to emphasize text: bolder weight, underline, or dots.