can we find a closer font match?

[dhowe]

kerning on this one looks quite bad (and no room for cursor):

[cqx931]

Found two similar fonts to 'Courier' JackInput, a bit thicker than 'Courier Regular'. The cursor need to be thinner than the current width if we use this one.

Cutive Mono, a bit thinner than 'Courier Regular' but some of the kerning might be too wide?

[cqx931]

Also, with the same code and same font (courier regular), the cursor offset is not correct when I use loadFont instead of the default textFont.Should be related to this: https://github.com/dhowe/PerceptualReader/issues/5

[dhowe]

Interesting -- might be related --can you figure out what is being measured incorrectly (the word or the cursor)?

For this project, lets just use textFont('courier', 150); as is

[cqx931]

when loading courier from otf/ttf, the width of each letter is not monospace. p5.js won't render mono space font correctly when the font is loaded from file. I have tried a few mono space font file (otf,ttf, copied directly from font folder or downloaded online) but none of them get the same letter width if they are loaded from file. The font file is copy pasted from default mac font folder. Please see: http://chenqianxun.com/testcases/monoSpaceFontTest/

p5 issue https://github.com/processing/p5.js/issues/1957

[dhowe]

is this the same issue as dhowe/PerceptualReader#5 ? also, just because a font is called courier, doesn't mean that it is true monospace (or even that it is not coded badly) -- so pls verify that the font renders correctly in some other program and that it is true monospace