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IdreesInc / Monocraft

A monospaced programming font inspired by the Minecraft typeface
https://idreesinc.com
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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macos: not detected as a monospace font #26

Open andypiper opened 1 year ago

andypiper commented 1 year ago

In macOS Font Book, there's a smart collection for Monospaced (Fixed Width) fonts.

I've tried to look into how this is determined, and I'm not sure. FontForge docs seems to say that it (FF) should decide for itself when the font is monospaced, although it also mentions some (OS/2?) setting for this, and I don't know if this would have an impact.

tl;dr it would be nice if Monocraft was automatically added to the Fixed Width smart collection in Font Book, and I'm not sure why it doesn't show up there.

ChiefArug commented 1 year ago

It seems that IntelliJ also does not recognise it as a monospace font. In Settings -> Editor -> Colour scheme -> Console Font there is an option to only show monospaced fonts, and if that is on Monocraft does not show up.

There is an article on their support page here: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000068140 that says it can have something to do with it not including a bold version.

IdreesInc commented 1 year ago

Problem is due to #77. I'm having a bit of difficulty trying to determine how to emulate the character replacement that fonts like FiraCode use to get around this problem so I will likely need external help there. Let me know if this causes any problems with using the font.