Italic shapes

[greedy]

It would be great to have italic shapes too. Auto-italics will wreak havoc on characters like \ / and |.

[miguelsousa]

Quoting Paul: "If there is enough interest in companion italics for Source Code, hopefully the community will help to develop them."

[greedy]

@miguelsousa wouldn't it be appropriate to keep the issue open so it is recognized that italics is desired and a contribution of italic shapes would be accepted?

[pauldhunt]

I think so. We’ll leave this an open issue for now and see what comes of it.

[miguelsousa]

Agree.

[Francisc]

Some editors or themes make use of italics for special or otherwise reserved words.

I'm in favour of italics.

[njx]

This is an issue for Brackets too (we had to turn off bold/italics in the Markdown mode we got from CodeMirror, which uses them by default).

[Melindrea]

I will add as well that italics would be of interest to me.

I will try to see what I can do to help, though I know little of how to make fonts, so I fear that "making encouraging noises" is about what I can do.

[koenpunt]

Italic would be nice, so it can be used in TextMate :)

[ashemedai]

Add my vote/interest for it. Both my source code in IntelliJ IDEA as well as Sublime Text highlighting uses italics and the faux italics/slant Source Code Pro uses right now is not "good enough" for me to work with. So in the end I had to revert back to Consolas.

[smlombardi]

Add my vote for a true italic. It is very nice to have in Vera Sans Mono.

[sorlok]

I'd like proper italics too, if at all possible. (I tend to use italics to style code comments).

[corelon]

+1 from me too. We live in the world of theme-able editors and it is a pretty useful addition. Especially since most text editors default to having comments in italics.

[Moncader]

I'd also love to see italics for use in Sublime Text as well.

[tanc]

+1 it would complete the font.

[ghost]

+1 from me. Consolas has a beautiful, contrasting italic face. Source Code Pro just isn't complete without italics.

I think the actual design should be fairly simple; we could simply base the italics on those from Source Sans Pro.

[pauldhunt]

I think that we all agree that italics would be a very useful addition to this (or any) typeface family. I previously fielded a similar request on our blog where I stated:

Although The letterforms of Source Sans are mostly oblique forms, that doesn’t mean they were generated automagically. The Italics represent about as much work as the upright design. If there is enough interest in companion italics for Source Code, hopefully the community will help to develop them. Typblography: Announcing Source Code Pro

Perhaps we will seed this project with some source files in the new year and see what those of you interested can contribute.

[mfkp]

+1 italics for SublimeText

[ghost]

Some of us can't afford FontLab Studio, or whatever program opens the source files you provide. Could you possibly release the files in the .sfd format, so us poor men using FontForge can edit them?

[pauldhunt]

We have standardized on the UFO format for outline storage. FontForge should be able to open UFO files. We plan to make UFO versions of the existing projects available in the near future.

[zrob]

Appreciate the great font. Italics would be great. +1 italics for SublimeText

[adben]

+1, Source Code Pro needs true italics.

[pauldhunt]

I agree, true italics would be nice, but until one if our customers builds a time machine... We will have to wait until I have time to do it or someone else helps with the development. +1’s won’t get us thrre any sooner although I am encouraged by your interest in this project.

[Francisc]

+1 !!

[phaistonian]

+1

[vikky49]

+1

[xiel]

+1

[pauldhunt]

/0 just kidding! just letting you know that I have actually started into exploring italic shapes for Source Code, however I have a lot of projects on my plate at the moment that take precedence, so thank you for your continued patience and interest in this project.

[phaistonian]

Awesome!

any ETA ?:)

[Melindrea]

You rock =) I really wish I could help you, but this is not something I can do, so all I can do is cheering you on.

[pauldhunt]

no ETA, but I guess I should add this along with some other things to the roadmap...

[davidpmccormick]

Ace.

[brunogama]

+1 for italics

[chriskrycho]

I concur with the above. Source Code Pro will be the perfect software development typeface once it has italics, so I look forward to hearing when this is completed. As it is, it's already my preferred typeface by a substantial margin—especially with the light weight using light text on a dark background—and italics would simply cement that.

[Bengt]

+1 Italics are essential, because they are expected by some editors.

[toph-allen]

+1, italics would rock.

[ghost]

+1, I would love to see italics here too. I'd be willing to take a stab at working on them, but I've never contributed to an open source project, nor have I played much with FontForge. If I can figure out the best way to offer help in getting this done, I'll do so.

[davidpmccormick]

Another +1 for italics. Yeah! Who's with me? It-a-lics. It-a-lics. It-a-lics….

[mretondo]

Another +1 for italics. I too use IntelliJ IDEA for Java and it defaults to using italic for statics.

[der-onkel]

Also +1 for italic. It is indispensable for IntelliJ IDEA!

[notthetup]

+1 for Italics. Now that Google's pushing Intellij for Android, this is going to be critical..

[pauldhunt]

@Chinmay please explain.

[chinmay]

@pauldhunt What explanation is expected out of me?

[frankrolf]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IntelliJ_IDEA

It seems to be a Java IDE which uses Italics for comments etc.

On 15. May 2013, at 23:24 , Chinmay notifications@github.com wrote:

@pauldhunt What explanation is expected out of me?

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[der-onkel]

Yes for comments and more important for all static fields and methodes

[notthetup]

Google's moved from Eclipse to Intellij IDEA for it's Android IDE. So many developers will be moving to it pretty soon.

http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/studio.html

And Intellij IDEA uses Italics in code highlighting..

Here's an example of how Source Code Pro vs Monaco looks in the new Android Studio.

Source Code Pro

Monaco

[codeman38]

@notthetup: What's bizarre is that Monaco doesn't actually have an italic style either. So why does it render oblique characters when Source Code doesn't? Did Apple do some sort of OS-level magic on that particular font?

Edited to add: Just tested on my own MacBook, and apparently the blank characters are an issue with using the OpenType version of Source Code Pro in IntelliJ. If you install the TrueType version instead, it will render fake italics like Monaco does. Still not as good as a true italic, but at least it's readable.

[chriskrycho]

They seem to have. It looks like it's probably just slanting it. Perhaps there's something in Core Text with special handling for that one, but not other fonts?

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[notthetup]

@codeman38 : OK. Thanks for the clarification. I'll check out the TrueType version later. Apologies for not knowing the difference. I'm guessing even with true Italics font support, unless IntelliJ supports it, one will still see the 'fake italics'.

[notthetup]

OK. I verified that Source Code Pro TrueType (ttf) works fine with IntelliJ IDEA or Android Studio.

For anyone on OSX trying to get this combination to work, you'll have to add in the SCP .ttf files to this folder : /System/Library/JavaVM.Framework/Home/lib/fonts

Not just the OSX FontBook.

[chriskrycho]

That's outstanding. Thanks for doing the legwork. Still: a true italic child make SCP the go-to typeface for a lot of folks.