Feature Request: Provide italics version

[cool-RR]

I love the italics version of Consolas, and I use it for comments. I wish Cascadia had an italics version too.

[rschr]

Italic, Bold, and Bold+Italic typeface definitions would indeed be needed, many IDEs make use of them, and algorithmically produced italic/bold typefaces never look really good.

[vsalvino]

I would recommend looking to IMB Plex Mono, Courier Prime, or Operator Mono for inspiration which provide a more script-like italic versus just a slanted/oblique version.

[rschr]

Thanks, I'll have a look into those. Actually there's no shortage of code fonts these days; Consolas is good, so is Noto Sans Mono. I really like Cascadia Code's typeface, though...

[vsalvino]

Agreed, we are living in a golden era of monospace typography! Consolas is also quite a good font, albeit more neutral in design. But if you want to use cascadia as an all around programming font then having weights and styles would be nice to please us vain developers :)

[up-to-you]

The world's most popular Jetbrains IDE family use Regular, Heavy, Italic types for different cases in Font's rendering, thus Cascadia is not applicable there. Hope Heavy and Italic derivatives will coming soon.

[tomByrer]

I like Victor Mono's italics, & I hope similar script-italics are added here. Helps make italics stand out better.

[mdtauk]

I would definitely as my voice to calls for a true italic, and not just an oblique

[mcendu]

Please rename this issue as bold is not covered by the title but is covered by the contents.

[DHowett-MSFT]

The request for more weights is actually in #128.

[WTFox]

Is this in the pipeline for a future release?

[MiguelMachado-dev]

Is this going to happen?
I wish Cascadia had an italics version too.

[eduardhyan]

This is one of my dreams :)))) Hope it will come true

[TheSETJ]

I'll be cool, especially if there is a cursive version of italic.

I like italic from Dank Mono and Cartograph.

[AnsonH]

I think IBM Plex Mono is a great example of italic font done right. It would be awesome if Cascadia Code's italic font is like that

[adrianslupu]

Monospace font geek here, please don't use Dank Mono for any reference, the originator font for mainstream script italics is Operator Mono, I find Dank Mono a poorly designed font, and I've seen literally every programming font you can find on the web, even really obscure ones that you'll never see.

Victor Mono is a good example of script italics, Cartograph CF is again nice, Operator Mono also fits the bill, but I think script italics is a bit much, I think something along the lines of what Consolas has, subtle stylistic touches on the italics will fit the bill, Iosevka also does this and there's a really nice new comer, the font which has now become my daily driver for the past couple of months, Recursive Mono (i use the Semicasual style), they all have similar approaches to their italics, really subtle touches on various letters, to give it that distrinct look.

I think italics done on the subtle side are much better than script, that's my personal opinion and should be the most balanced approach to please everyone. Don't get me wrong, if the Cascadia team has the bandwidth, do both, or go full script, but I think there are enough devs that hate the script italics and they are really easy to mess up and become something else.

[TheSETJ]

I found another font that has good italic: Recursive. I wish it had ligatures built-in.

[adrianslupu]

@TheSETJ

I found another font that has good italic: Recursive. I wish it had ligatures built-in.

I'm not sure if you activated ligatures in VSCode (if that's what you're using) and I did mention this font in my comment above

does this and there's a really nice new comer, the font which has now become my daily driver for the past couple of months, Recursive Mono (i use the Semicasual style), they all have similar approaches to their italics, really subtle touches on various letters, to give it that distinct look.

[TheSETJ]

@TheSETJ

I found another font that has good italic: Recursive. I wish it had ligatures built-in.

I'm not sure if you activated ligatures in VSCode (if that's what you're using) and I did mention this font in my comment above

does this and there's a really nice new comer, the font which has now become my daily driver for the past couple of months, Recursive Mono (i use the Semicasual style), they all have similar approaches to their italics, really subtle touches on various letters, to give it that distinct look.

I had it enabled from before. Odd that it's not working for me!

[patrickfatrick]

With Recursive you need to download the zip from the github repo and use the "Recursive_Code" fonts. Those fonts include ligatures.

[shubhamkumarpanday]

Requesting to add Italics to cascadia code.
Hope will consider my suggestion

[coxackie]

Any updates here? There is so much interest...

[rashil2000]

@DHowett-MSFT are there any plans for this? I don't see anything in the roadmap or elsewhere.

The latest release of Windows Terminal supports inline italics, and Cascadia Code's programmatically generated italic variant looks, well, pretty ugly.

Would love to see an italics version of this, like Consolas itself. It's the only thing that's keeping me from using Cascadia :(

[colopatiron]

I love the font, but I went back to Iosevka and JetBrains Mono because of the lack of italics.
As soon as italics are added, I will switch back.

[Uxorious]

What happened to Italics ... it looks handwritten now!

[patrickfatrick]

Don't be mean guys. Someone put a lot of work into this and there are many other fonts to choose from.

[mdtauk]

Don't be mean guys. Someone put a lot of work into this and there are many other fonts to choose from.

It's easy to criticise, but font design is an art form, and there is obviously an intent to add a specific cursive flare to Cascadia.

If you don't like the cursive style, than please request an oblique version, and be constructive and kind in how you respond.

If you have issues reading particular glyphs, then mention it in a constructive and kind manner.

[donn]

Fair enough. I deleted my messages and I sincerely apologize. There is feedback from a lot of users in #468 as to why we'd simply prefer an oblique version.

[dmstern]

Great work, I like it! 💯👍

[rschr]

Excellent! This really has become a well made and very usable font. Right now I'm trying it in both my development environments and my Linux terminal, and I really can see myself staying with it.