“Arial Unicode MS” is a massive font that supports nearly every script, but it lacks true “Bold Italic” as a separate style. However, if your application (e.g., Word, Photoshop) artificially applies bold and italic to its Regular weight, the result looks like : Here is how Arial Unicode MS appears when you force Bold + Italic styling The letters lean forward and thicken, but since there’s no dedicated font file for this combination, the software synthesizes it on the fly. For design purposes, it’s cleaner to use a different font family that has native Bold Italic, like Arial (which does have Bold Italic as a separate style) or another Unicode font like Noto Sans.