How to make a font italic in final cut pro when one is not included

From what I can tell, there never was a "Marker Felt Italic" released by the original artist (Pat Snyder). The originals were Thin and Wide. Apple "bought"/licensed the font and made a few alterations.

As such, I'm assuming Marker Felt Italic is a bit of a "rip".

This is Marker Felt (Thin) "transformed" in Motion:

To me, it looks nearly identical to the Marker Felt Italic font available on fontzone.net.

Final Cut doesn't provide the feature, but Motion does. In the Text > Format inspector, there is a parameter called "Slant". I used 12.0 (degrees) for this example. For a logo, you could use any graphics application that allows for this kind of "distortion" (and they almost all do!) and just make a "one-off" graphic instead of adding another font or creating a Motion template that allows slanting.

Slanting is *not* italics, but most people really don't know the difference and with a font like Marker, you can get away with it.

It does not appear in FCP, because it is not installed on the OS. I am guessing that it may be part of the Adobe applications themselves.

If you can get this font, you should be able to install it in macOS just by double-clicking it, which opens in FontBook, and click Install. Then it should be available.

More than a few times in the past to better match some design of a client with modified fonts and whatnot on a poster or logo, I've just Option-D the text element and distort it into a faux italicized version.

You can find the font here:

https://fontzone.net/font-details/marker-italic

Option - D in Final Cut will activate the Distort tool. It's an on-screen tool and it can be applied to Titles. However, it doesn't provide any feedback about the angle of the "skew". Be careful, italics should generally not be greater than 14º of slant

If you don't need to make any changes or animate the logo, you'd probably be better saving it as an image file - a png with large enough resolution would be fine - you could export that right out of FCP, with transparency. Or you could create a vectorial pdf for arbitrary resolution. This would ensure that you always have a consistent logo.

Alternatively, if you have Motion, you could open (a copy) in Motion, set the kerning there and save it; this custom title would have the kerning you selected by default.

I highlight the text element, (yellow outline or the active "dot" on it) and then just tap Option + D, then you can drag the top and bottom blue squares to add a faux italicized look. You can also just click on the blue outline squares next to the word "Distort" in the video inspector.

Tap A to exit the Distort window quickly.