While reading #910 I've have one more thing to add (sorry for that but @wwalc told me to report this).
So the Italic feature icon is a serif one while other icons are sans-serif

I don't see a better solution though.
Well, "slash" icon might be not the best idea.
Well, "slash" icon might be not the best idea.
Yeah I know that's probably a reason but since we're looking at icons... :wink:
edit: it always can be a lower cased one: _i_ a bit better then _I_ I think.
Italicised lowercased "i" looks like an "info point" ;) We've been there.
Since this issue issue is inactive for a quite some time, and we were unable to come up with a constructive proposal I'll close it for now.
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Italicised lowercased "i" looks like an "info point" ;) We've been there.