The case of the missing italics (Patreon)

So Patreon's bold new "embrace the evil paramecium" site design appears to have broken the ability to display italics in stories. Since I use italics kind of, like, a lot, this is an issue. As it turns out, Patreon is still storing the italics, they've just broken it with the web font they're using.

Until they fix it, there are two possible workarounds if you want to see italics:

1. Use your web browser's "reader mode" if it has one

2. Disable web fonts on Patreon