Default font size and density too thin on VsCode Linux

[mubaidr]

Problem: Font weight for default is too thin. Using same VsCode settings for different OS (Windows 10 in my case works fine, font is rendered perfectly)

Screenshot of Issue:

VsCode settings:

"editor.fontFamily": "'Monaspace Neon Var'",
  "editor.fontLigatures": "'calt', 'liga', 'dlig', 'ss01', 'ss02', 'ss03', 'ss04', 'ss05', 'ss06', 'ss07', 'ss08', 'ss09', 'ss10'",
  "editor.fontSize": 16,
  "editor.fontWeight": "400",

OS:

Operating System: Manjaro Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.9
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.112.0
Qt Version: 5.15.11
Kernel Version: 6.6.1-1-MANJARO (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-8550U CPU @ 1.80GHz
Memory: 7.7 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 620
Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Product Name: Inspiron 5570

VsCode:

Version: 1.85.0-insider
Commit: 54b8f6a80aaad7489b75e9293b8d7a1700bed815
Date: 2023-11-17T10:49:23.290Z (2 days ago)
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Code-Insiders/1.85.0-insider Chrome/114.0.5735.289 Electron/25.9.4 Safari/537.36

[RickyTino]

Having exactly the same issue. Operating System: Red Hat 4.8.5-44 (Linux version 3.10.0), VSCode version: 1.76.1

[mubaidr]

Update:

• linux does not recognize this font as monospace font.
• this same issue persists in console application too (konsole in my case)

[TZECHIN6]

https://github.com/githubnext/monaspace/issues/182

Mine is just too thick, look like bold

[heathercran]

This is because you're using the variable fonts, which VS Code doesn't fully support yet. If you install the static versions of the fonts instead, it should look as expected!

[mubaidr]

Update:

• linux does not recognize this font as monospace font.
• this same issue persists in console application too (konsole in my case)

Any update on this?

[heathercran]

Update:

• linux does not recognize this font as monospace font.
• this same issue persists in console application too (konsole in my case)

Any update on this?

Yes! That issue was related to panose flags, which was fixed in version 1.1.