Just a wild guess: Could it be that there is no italic version of the font chosen? You could verify this by choosing another font. R. On Oct 12, 2012, at 17:56 , Tom Eugelink <tbee at tbee.org> wrote: > I've got two Text nodes in my layout; I can style them with -fx-font-weight: bold, but -fx-font-style: italic is ignored. Why? > > Tom >