how to use cascadia code italic in vscode?

[sanket-bhalerao]

Issue Type: Feature Request

Today i came across Cascadia Code with Italics and fell in love with it.

is there any possibility of changing the editor font style to italics? I tried with several forums and it seems that individual tokens can be changed and throughout style can not be changed.
if there is some setting i missed?

VS Code version: Code - Insiders 1.58.0-insider (e1161be, 2021-06-14T05:12:28.099Z)
OS version: Darwin x64 20.5.0
Restricted Mode: No

[sanket-bhalerao]

for some reason my macBook shows the italics but windows 10 machine does not. i have installed the latest Cascadia Code fonts (ttf) on both of them.

[IllusionMH]

For Windows you either should install only Italic version e.g. CascadiaCodePLItalic.ttf, then add 'Cascadia Code PL' (font name should correspond to font you picked) in front or "editor.fontFamily" value. Works in case when you don't need regular version.

In other case you need to install both - install both Regular and Italic version, add 'Cascadia Code PL' (font name should correspond to font you picked) in front or "editor.fontFamily" value.
And now you need to override syntax highlight styles for all scopes.

Follow steps from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41320848/how-do-i-get-visual-studio-code-to-display-italic-fonts-in-formatted-code but specify "fontStyle": "italic" for all scopes you need.
I guess that full list of top level scopes is ["comment", "constant", "emphasis", "entity", "invalid", "keyword", "markup", "meta", "storage", "string", "strong", "support", "variable"]

[sanket-bhalerao]

thank you for the details. i will try it.
is there any plan or future possibility of having a shortcut setting like "editor.fontStyle": italic ?