It doesn't do that for me in Chrome( desktop, laptop, mobile devices ). I did a search online and looks like it is not unheard of for this to happen in GC if the font file in question gets lost or corrupted I guess. I see threads about this dating back to the mid 2000's with Chrome. I used Tahoma on this site. Maybe your Tahoma font is corrupted or the normal version is missing? I definitely see why you said something. That would be awful! No italic style font on the site at all though so something is off in Chrome on your end.

This link might help you out...

https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comm...talics_for_all