italic vs slanting

italic

adj
  • Having letters that slant or lean to the right; oblique. 

  • Designed to resemble a handwriting style developed in Italy in the 16th century. 

noun
  • An oblique handwriting style, such as used by Italian calligraphers of the Renaissance. 

  • A typeface in which the letters slant to the right. 

slanting

adj
  • Out of the perpendicular, not perpendicular. 

noun
  • The state or quality of being slanted. 

How often have the words italic and slanting occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )