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Re:Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders by b3b0p on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @01:15AM (#6358302)
I like Source Code Pro, but it lacks italics. That's really the only downside to me.

I love Monaco also, but only unaliased at about 10pt. Otherwise, I use Menlo or DejaVu Sans Mono usually.

I've known about Anonymous Pro, but have not given it much usage yet to decide if I like it more than others.

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Re:Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders by buro9 on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @01:57AM (#6358418)
Strange, I'm seeing italics in Sublime Text 3 for Source Code Pro.

You're right that the font seems to lack italics, anyone know whether this is just Sublime faking it?

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Re:Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders by b3b0p on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @11:14PM (#6365296)
Yes, as you stated it's basically Sublime slanting the characters.

Here is the ticket on Github: https://github.com/adobe/source-code-pro/issues/6

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Re:Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders by icebraining on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @04:48AM (#6358914)
I think the font rendering engines (e.g. FreeType) can do fake italics by slating the characters.
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Re:Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders by doktorn on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @07:25AM (#6359365)
What would you use italics for in programming? I've never used italics, maybe I'm missing something.
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Re:Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders by b3b0p on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @10:53PM (#6365213)
It will depend on the syntax rules for the editor.
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Re:Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders by bluedino on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @08:46AM (#6359634)
Comments.
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