Apply All Forms of Styling Programmatically
Mathematica 6 includes convenient symbolic mechanisms for specifying arbitrary styling of text and other objects.
In[1]:=  |  Table[Text[
Style["word", RandomReal[{5, 40}],
RandomChoice[{Bold, Italic, Plain}],
Hue[RandomReal[], .7, .7]]], {50}] |
Out[1]=  |  |