How do I get Visual Studio Code to display italic fonts in formatted code?

Question

How do I configure VS Code to support italic styles, like in this picture?

My current settings:

Answer 1

You have to specify the font using the filename. If you have a font with an italic face, then this will work (I tried this on Mac).

For example:

"editor.fontFamily": "'OperatorMono-LightItalic'",