Italics look awkward and are hard to read (possibly different font entirely?)

[faho]

Windows Terminal version (or Windows build number)

1.9.1445.0

Other Software

In this case Debian 10 in WSL1, bash 5.0.3, ncurses 6.1+20181013-2+deb10u2

I don't think it matters.

Steps to reproduce

Set font to Cascadia Code or Mono (which, as I understand it, is the default and recommended font?)

Inside bash (or fish) run:

printf '\e[3mitalic\n\e(B\e[mnormal\n'

This shows the a line with the text "italic" in italic, and a line that says "normal" in non-italic.

(\e[3m is xterm's "enter_italics_mode" and \e(B\e[m is exit_attribute_mode)

Expected Behavior

Italic font is essentially the same as the normal font and readable.

Actual Behavior

Italic font is distracting and hard to read.

This is mainly an issue for me because my emacs configuration renders comments in italic, so it's hard to read the comments.

[skyline75489]

Actually this is expected. The font is called 'Cascadia "Curve"'. See https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code/releases/tag/v2105.24

[faho]

... is there a way to turn it off?

I legitimately find it distracting (because it's sooo different from the rest) and hard to read.

Cascadia itself is alright and the other fonts I have installed are bad, so I would prefer not to have to switch to something else entirely.

E.g.

This reads to me as "Default optionj ane manked with *"

(also already reported for cascadia-code at microsoft/cascadia-code#468)

[zadjii-msft]

You know, we've got issues for "add setting to disable xyz font feature", so it's not unreasonable to have one for italics as well. I'll tag this up and include it in #1790

[DHowett]

I'm going to say that we should subsume this issue ("disable italics") into the font config one, close this one and direct users who have complaints about Cascadia to move along to the Cascadia repository.

[DHowett]

So: if you have complaints about Cascadia, move along to the cascadia repository.

[Uxorious]

Sure. But in the meantime, I suspect a lot of us will stop using Cascadia Code.

[DHowett]

You're welcome to do that.