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This is a fun, new monospaced font that includes programming ligatures and is designed to enhance the modern look and feel of the Windows Terminal.
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Feature Request: Provide italics version #63

Closed cool-RR closed 3 years ago

cool-RR commented 5 years ago

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

rschr commented 5 years ago

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 commented 5 years ago

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 commented 5 years ago

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 commented 5 years ago

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 commented 5 years ago

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 commented 4 years ago

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

mdtauk commented 4 years ago

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

mcendu commented 4 years ago

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

DHowett-MSFT commented 4 years ago

The request for more weights is actually in #128.

WTFox commented 4 years ago

Is this in the pipeline for a future release?

MiguelMachado-dev commented 4 years ago

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

eduardhyan commented 4 years ago

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

TheSETJ commented 4 years ago

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

I like italic from Dank Mono and Cartograph.

AnsonH commented 3 years ago

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 commented 3 years ago

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 commented 3 years ago

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

adrianslupu commented 3 years ago

@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.

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TheSETJ commented 3 years ago

@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.

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

patrickfatrick commented 3 years ago

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

shubhamkumarpanday commented 3 years ago

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

coxackie commented 3 years ago

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

rashil2000 commented 3 years ago

@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 commented 3 years ago

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 commented 3 years ago

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

patrickfatrick commented 3 years ago

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

mdtauk commented 3 years ago

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 commented 3 years ago

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 commented 3 years ago

Great work, I like it! 💯👍

rschr commented 3 years ago

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.