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adobe-fonts / source-code-pro

Monospaced font family for user interface and coding environments
https://adobe-fonts.github.io/source-code-pro/
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Increase font height #318

Closed chmielcode closed 1 year ago

chmielcode commented 1 year ago

Hi, I've discovered Office Code Pro, which is based on a very old build of Source Code Pro and looks absolutely perfect in notepad++ (size 9) and vscode (size 12) while Source Code Pro is a little bit too small. Other fonts like JetBrains Mono, Cascadia Mono, Noto Sans Mono etc. look good at this size, but I prefer Source Code Pro style. Would you please consider increasing the height of this font to match all other popular fonts or maybe suggest any way to do it myself? Author of Office Code Pro is inactive for years and I would love to have recent Source Code Pro with similar size to Office Code Pro.

Thank you very much for your work :)

pauldhunt commented 1 year ago

I have actually begun some preliminary work adding a Variable Font (VF) axis that would allow the user to vary the x-height to their preference. There is no slated delivery day for this feature, however. I hope to get back on this project sometime later this year. There’s a lot I want to do with the next major release.

chmielcode commented 1 year ago

That's great news, thank you :)

D0J0P commented 6 months ago

Question: Is the default x-height of SourceCodeVF higher than regular Source Code Pro? And like chmielcode asked, how do you configure it to have a higher x-height like JetBrains Mono does?

D0J0P commented 6 months ago

Here is how these fonts look in font manager(GTK app). JetBrains Mono is on top, SCP in the middle, and GoMono on the bottom: 2024-04-05-000957_1920x1080_scrot

JB Mono looks tall, but so does GoMono, and it has some nice width to it like SCP. Could SCP be made to have the same x-height as them instead of setting it in the variable version?

A good article by Go: https://go.dev/blog/go-fonts