Italic Font

[master-of-none]

I love writing code in Zed and have completely switched from VS Code to Zed.
I am using Victor Mono Font. Is there a way to enable italic font for things like comments or keywords?

[nickpapciak]

late to the party but you can put this in your ~/.config/zed/settings.json file

  "experimental.theme_overrides": {
    "syntax": {
      "comment": {
        "font_style": "italic"
      }
    }
  }

[master-of-none]

DId they add it?
Lol, I switched to Neovim and sometimes use VS Code.

[rubjo]

What a nice font! This was added a few months back. You can also install and use a theme extensions that employs italics, like eg. my Ultimate Dark Neo – and I'm sure some others.

[elisiariocouto]

I'm using M Plus 1 Code (patched with Nerd Fonts) and the italics are not working. I've installed the M Plus 1 Code without the Nerd Fonts patch and it still doesn't work. Using the same font in iTerm2 and VS Code displays italics. Does anyone know how to troubleshoot this?

[elisiariocouto]

After a bit of searching, I found that this font does not have Italic variations. VS Code and Sublime apparently italicize fonts that do not have Italic variations. Is there any plans to support this?

[JulindM]

What VSCode is doing, is I think that is "oblique"ing the font. The font may not have italics, but it can be obliqued to make it slanted.

[rahulj51]

Did this break in the latest release? It was working till recently but has stopped working since 0.163.2

[rubjo]

Works for me in 0.164.0 preview, anyway.

[rahulj51]

ok. I figured what was wrong. I had set buffer_font_weight to 500. Zed is not rendering this for some reason.

[ao]

Still the same issue on Zed 0.176.3

[not-a-cowfr]

#6663 (comment)
(if you want to override other things check out theme docs or https://zed-themes.com/themes/edit)

if that doesnt work make sure your font actually has an italicized version