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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.

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?

I think the font rendering engines (e.g. FreeType) can do fake italics by slating the characters.

Yes, as you stated it's basically Sublime slanting the characters.

What would you use italics for in programming? I've never used italics, maybe I'm missing something.

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It will depend on the syntax rules for the editor.