In typography, emphasis is the exaggeration of words in a text with a font in a different style from the rest of the text—to emphasize them. Methods & use of emphasis The human eye is very receptive to differences in brightness within a text body. One can therefore differentiate between types of emphasis according to whether the emphasis changes the "blackness" of text. A means of emphasis that doesn't have much effect on "blackness" is printing in italics, where the text is written in… (More on Bold)