macOS: problem with font size

[tatecapone]

Hi Alexey: When I choose the font and set the size, whatever font I pick up, 10 px is too small, like ants, and 11px is too big 🤪... and this didn't happen with the previous version ...

Its Cuda 1.89 Macos Catalina 10.15.1

[Alexey-T]

Can you show screenshot in both cases (of the editor field)?

[tatecapone]

Sure...and you can see how the font always seems to be in bold. Here I use San Francisco mono, very common in Mac, which uses xcode ... but the same thing happens with all ... and even more exaggerated ...

Difference between Inconsolata 13 and 14 pt... again apppears in bold and i dont use bold in my themes...

in the last snapshot the e of true appears cutted...I put it in bold so you can see the exaggerated thickness

[Alexey-T]

About font size: will think about it. About always bold font: what syntax-theme do you use? is it new?

[Alexey-T]

Can you share the syntax-theme "zen"? maybe it has always bold font?

[tatecapone]

Zen.cuda-theme-syntax.zip

Zen.cuda-theme-ui.zip

Here is the theme...is a duplicate of other and customize to my taste...

[tatecapone]

I understand the problem of the bold in the dark themes… but I have tried all the options of fonts since antialias and the others and only antialias makes the font illegible… in the clear themes the fonts looks much better, as it is… in spite of of the size

[Alexey-T]

I don't see always bold on Linux, so always bold on macOS is strange.. will think

[tatecapone]

I also thought that I could be a macos problem ... I'll try the same font you use ... Looks good my theme...😜...make it cudatext dark by default...hahaa

[tatecapone]

Its the same, nothing change....

[Alexey-T]

I just updated plugin "Testing of dialog API". Install it (Plugins / Addon Manager / Install). Run its command "Plugins / Testing of dialog API / test labels rendering".

• show its screenshot with needed text font, it must be like this:

• show screenshot of the SAME FONT in some macOS NATIVE APP, e.g. text editor or XCode.

[tatecapone]

SF Mono, size 12....

Inconsolata, size 14

Test: Size 9 already looks fat By the way I tell you that I can not access the web cutatext….…. 🙃..It is already the second or third day that occurs

[Alexey-T]

Screenshot of new plugin looks ok. Editor text looks ok too? Plugin don't show "always bold font", but editor shows "always bold"? With "SF Mono" and default Cudatext theme?

[Alexey-T]

Size 9 already looks fat

You mean it is like bold? but screenshot of plugin shows that normal is NOT bold.

[tatecapone]

Here is SF mono with size 9, look the difference between strings value type, and the other text...that was I mean with fat.

[Alexey-T]

I tested on macOS 10.11 -

• font "Courier New" dont look "always bold", it is ok in user.json
• font "Menlo" looks okay too in user.json
• some other fonts dont have bold version and look "always bold", e.g Monaco

Do you confirm it?

[tatecapone]

Monaco size 10 for To be better appreciated...

Menlo

Inconsolata, At least mine, it doesn't have a bold version

[tatecapone]

The strange thing is, for example in SF Mono, the string types look good ... and the rest of the code does not ...

[Alexey-T]

Pls show screenshot of "labels render" plugin for font Menlo.

[tatecapone]

In labels render looks very good, It's more, looks better live than in the picture

[Alexey-T]

I think no bug here, font Menlo is not always bold. Do this: in JSON file, type "truez", look how font changes when you add "z" at end of "truez". it must change when "true" changes to "truez".

[tatecapone]

truez anywhere?

nothing change

[Alexey-T]

Strange. Maybe some Catalina issue. I will ask Lazarus developers.

[tatecapone]

Yep...I think so...They soften the fonts a lot...sorry for the wasted time...

[tatecapone]

I have deactivated the source smoothing of the general options Victor Mono size 10

still look diferent in the labels rendered but is ok... another think...Victor mono has font ligatures...cudatext ligatures is on...but in the editor doesnt work...🧐

[tatecapone]

Ok...neither font with ligatures work..

[Alexey-T]

Issue #2265 is about ligatures, moved there

[Alexey-T]

Maybe try this trick? https://ahmadawais.com/fix-macos-mojave-font-rendering-issue/

[tatecapone]

Yes!, thanks for the trick...It looks much better now ... as it should look Menlo 10

Compared with the before screenshot menlo 10

[Alexey-T]

Good that it helped.

[tatecapone]

I appreciate it a lot ... thanks for your interest, it's very kind of you...😉

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