I've downloaded and installed a new font, and in vscode changed editor:Font Family field
in settings to this font's name, and it works fine, but this font does not cover all ASCII characters. And the characters that are not supported by this font change for some ugly-looking default font. So my question is: "Can i change this default font that is being rendered if the character is not supported by my font, and how to do it?"
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This is what my settings is looking like:
This is the weird spacing between letters in terminal:
Why is the font on my VS Code's terminal have this weird spacing between letters? It is really bugging me and I tried to change the font in the settings to a monospace font (inconsolata), but that hasn't worked.
I think those big spaces between the characters comes from your exotic chosen font (Inconsolata). So change only "terminal.integrated.fontFamily": "Inconsolata" back to the default font:
"terminal.integrated.fontFamily": "Monaco"
And look, to need the double-quote, and not some triple quote like in your screenshot!
This usually happens when the chosen font is not installed on your system. Try to revert the font settings by removing or commenting these two lines:
"terminal.integrated.fontFamily": "Inconsolata"
"Editor.fontFamily": "Source Code pro"
The default font is usually the default monospace font of your system.
VS Code only accepts unicode fonts.
Try to setup:
"terminal.integrated.fontFamily": "monospace"
Using "MesloLGS Nerd Font Mono 11" as the integrated terminal family font fixed this issue.
Don't forget to make sure it is the integrated terminal family font you're setting and not the editor's family font.
How can I change the font family and font size of variables in the screenshot in VSCode?
There is a GitHub issue discussing this problem:
Allow to change the font size and font of the workbench
and someone has added a PR to resolve it:
Add settings for changing the workbench font size and font #144365
So maybe you need to wait for vscode to merge this function.
By the way, in my case,
because the font in variables use the default font of windows10 system - Consolas.
So I choose to change the default font, using Jetbrains Mono to replace Consolas, and it works.
When VSCode deals with two languages inside of the editor (the main font has the support of Cyrillic alphabet though), the Russian language shown with a different font, how to get the same font for Russian and English as well?
Example:
<title>"Писатели Якутии"</title>
Is it because your main font does not contain the required UTF subset, so a fall back font is used, or what? If it is true, how to add the required UTF subset to VSCode?
System: macOS Mojave, the latest version of Visual Studio Code.
The answer is, thanks to Reddit:
1) Just use a font with the Cyrillic alphabet as my main font;
2) Add preferred Cyrillic font second in the list of fonts in fontFamily, as in:
"editor.fontFamily": "fontOne, fontTwo",
I'm trying to display the heart ♥ Unicode character (U+2665 BLACK HEART SUIT) in this jsfiddle.
Even though I've specified the Droid Sans font, the different browsers are displaying the same character differently. So, I'm assuming that the Droid Sans font doesn't include the ♥ character and the browser must fallback to some other font to display this character. But how does the browser determine which font to use for Unicode characters; as it turns out (from screenshots) that it's not operating system specific as Firefox and Chromium both on Ubuntu display it differently; and also it is not browser specific as Firefox displays it differently on Ubuntu and Windows 7.
So my questions are - How does a browser determine which font to use to display Unicode characters; how can I find out which font is being used by the browser to display Unicode characters; and how can I ensure a consistent look cross-browser?
PS: (Firefox specific) Even though Droid Sans doesn't include the ♥ character, Firefox displays it as in screenshot only when the selected font is Droid Sans. For any other font, Firefox picks up the DejaVu Sans font to display the ♥ character (on Ubuntu, confirmed by hit and trial).
The Droid Sans font does not contain U+2665 BLACK HEART SUIT, so declaring the font is rather irrelevant here. I cannot reproduce the observation in your “PS”, so I’m not trying to explain it.
(A quick way to check character coverage in a font is to download and install the LastResort font. It contains a generic, easily recognizable rendering for all characters, so by using font-family: foo, LastResort on your test text you will quickly find out whether a particular character exists in font “foo”.)
The use of fallback fonts is browser-dependent. Browsers may have settings for this. But the point is that you, as an author, cannot know what happens on other people’s browsers, when your characters cannot be found in the list of fonts you specify (as installed, if installed, in the user’s computer).
I installed a custom font however, my app runs on two languages. I noticed that the custom fonts work with English but not with non-English. How can I overcome this?
You need to choose a custom font that includes "glyphs" for all of the special characters and punctuation that are needed for the language you are using. If the custom font you have is missing these extra glyphs, then you can either edit the font in a font editor such as Fontographer to add the missing glyphs (this requires drawing them in or copying parts from other letters), or finding a new version of the same font that includes the glyphs you need.
You can see the missing glyphs by opening a font that has these glyphs in the "Font Book" program included with mac os x. Then you can open your custom font and compare the two to see what's missing.
Also keep in mind that you usually need a custom license from the font owner to include fonts in your application.