Font renders poorly in Intellij IDE's on Windows

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Font renders poorly in Intellij IDE's on Windows #67

Closed hesselmonk closed 7 months ago

hesselmonk commented 7 months ago

I think it might be hinting related, the descender of the f and the bottom of the c look off to me in this example:

On macOS it looks like this:

Windows, Version 1.603

matype commented 7 months ago

@hesselmonk Thanks for the feedback!

I would like to know more information:

What is the resolution (dpi) of your display?
What px font size are you using?

hesselmonk commented 7 months ago

Hey sure, font size: 13.0 (no clue what units Intelij IDE's use), resolution: 1920 x 1080 (96dpi)

I've installed the .ttf version, looking at it in the Windows font settings it seems to be missing a bit of meta info.

matype commented 7 months ago

Could you try with this font file? (It includes changes in https://github.com/0xType/0xProto/issues/68 ) I've set auto hinting using ttfautohint-py when the font was built.

0xProto-Regular-fixed_monospace-and-auto_hinting.zip

hesselmonk commented 7 months ago

Yes, it renders much nicer now.

I do have to point out that Intellij IDE's have always had a funky way of rendering text. For reference this is what the same text, same size, looks like on this machine in VSCode: