Question: I'm loving [Source Code Pro](http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/09/source-code-pro.html) as a font. However, it can't be put in italics easily for Sublime Text 2 in-code comments.

Is there a way to set a different font for comments in Sublime Text 2?

Answer: 
[Sublime Text 3](http://www.sublimetext.com/3) (now in beta) produces a "synthetic" italic:

![Example of synthetic italic](https://i.imgur.com/L60wE0t.png)
I don't think you can select a font just for comments. I'm a little confused by the staetement "it can't be put in italics easily". I would think all you would have to do is look for the comment scope in the color scheme file and replace it with something like...

```
<dict>
    <key>name</key>
    <string>Comment</string>
    <key>scope</key>
    <string>comment</string>
    <key>settings</key>
    <dict>
        <key>fontStyle</key>
        <string>italic</string>
        <key>foreground</key>
        <string>#75715E</string>
    </dict>
</dict>

```

Note the above is based on the `Monokai.tmTheme`. Of course, you could have tried this already and perhaps there is some weird font thing. If so, ignore this post :)