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With only two characters, alternating between roman and italic fonts would be fine.

But with five characters, using five different type styles would be too confusing.

Just make sure you have five very different characters. One should be able to read almost any paragraph and just know whose it is.

If two of the characters are too similar (motives, behaviour, etc.), the readers aren't going to be able to keep them straight. And that would be your fault, not theirs.

(Note that this is a good idea in general, not only with first-person narration.)

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