# Makie text with variable styling

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-text-with-variable-styling/81666>\
**Category:** Visualization\
**Tags:** makie\
**Created:** [May 25, 2022, 5:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-text-with-variable-styling/81666 "2022-05-25T17:21:38Z")\
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> [@kevbonham](#):
>
> Particularly species names that need to be in italics

You can just use [Unicode italics](https://yaytext.com/bold-italic/) (assuming you have a font that covers these characters):

```julia
text("Relative abundance of 𝘌. 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘪")

```

(In Julia, type by tab-completing `\itE`, `\itc`, etcetera. You could easily write a function that converts ASCII letters in a string to their Unicode italic, bold, etcetera equivalents, but the web site linked above is also pretty convenient.)

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