[W0lf]

I have switched to Operator Mono about 10 years ago. This font is not free though. However it was the only font (at the time I was looking at at least) that had a monospaced italic version which I found looked slick. So I ended up buying that font and used it ever since.

[keeganpoppen]

operator mono has always been my goto since i first went into a deep dive on this topic, and i LOVE it. in the interest of full disclosure, i... torrented it... many, many years ago, but now that i'm thinking about it i will go buy a copy-- i definitely owe them at this point. highly, highly recommend operator mono-- i just feel like if you are optimizing for pure aesthetics it wins out. the italic version is definitely a big part of that.