Terminal font messed up after last update

[CherryDT]

Type: Bug

Since the last update, the terminal shows a messed-up font. My main font family is Cascadia Code, and nothing separate was configured for the terminal. The effect is the same when I manually set Cascadia Code (or Cascadia Mono, for that matter) as terminal font.

VS Code version: Code 1.74.3 (97dec172d3256f8ca4bfb2143f3f76b503ca0534, 2023-01-09T16:59:02.252Z) OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045 Modes: Sandboxed: No Remote OS version: Linux x64 4.4.0-19041-Microsoft Remote OS version: Linux x64 4.4.0-19041-Microsoft Remote OS version: Linux x64 4.4.0-19041-Microsoft

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EDIT: It seems tooltips are affected as well:

EDIT2: Furthermore, font ligatures in the editor are no longer working.

[CherryDT]

I just received another update, and now it looks better, but still not right, because it seems to be using Courier New or something like that, and not Cascadia Code or Cascadia Mono.

If I manually set Cascadia Code or Cascadia Mono, it shows me a warning "The terminal only supports monospace fonts. Be sure to restart VS Code if this is a newly installed font."

Restarting doesn't help though.

Also, the ligatures in the editor are still broken. My setting is as follows: "editor.fontLigatures": "'calt', 'ss01'",

[CherryDT]

Should I open a separate issue for the missing font ligatures in the editor?

[Tyriar]

Are you sure the font is installed correctly? Seems odd that 3 distinct font features would break all of a sudden. How do you configure the font?

[CherryDT]

The font is a default font of Windows Terminal and Visual Studio and also comes bundled with VSCode if I remember correctly (?), and the font is still available in the fonts folder and working fine elsewhere like Windows Terminal.

It is currently configured as editor.fontFamily, and the other more specific font settings like terminal.integrated.fontFamily are empty and should default to the same font. (Actually, I believe I should use Cascadia Mono for the terminal and not Cascadia Code, I learned that only recently, but setting it to that doesn't change anything.) editor.fontLigatures is set to 'calt', 'ss01' to enable the cursive italics and the ligatures like => which worked fine before. (https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code#to-enable-the-cursive-form-of-the-italic-heres-the-code-you-should-use)

[Tyriar]

It doesn't come bundled with VS Code, if you're relying on the WT font I don't think that installs it into Windows where we could pick it up.

[CherryDT]

The thing is, it worked until the second-last update of VSCode, after the update and restarting VSCode, this happened...

[CherryDT]

Well, whatever it was, it seems to be fixed now after I just got another VSCode update. Thank you to whoever caused this to be resolved in the update!

[VSCodeTriageBot]

Hey @Tyriar, this issue might need further attention.

@CherryDT, you can help us out by closing this issue if the problem no longer exists, or adding more information.

[Tyriar]

@meganrogge why did you reopen this one?

[CherryDT]

@Tyriar They reopened it because the issue still exists. (Or actually, again, for the third time.) And I had asked in #200739 to have this one reopened so I could add more info.

That more info is: The last two times it also affected tooltips.

As this issue has the tag info-needed, can you please let me know what info exactly you need?

Thank you.

[dmonder]

I am having a similar issue.

I have Oh-My-Posh setup in PowerShell. In Terminal, I have Cascadia Mono NF selected as my font face and it works correctly.

However, in VS Code, when I set the terminal font to Cascadia Mono NF, I get the following error:

If I change to Cascadia Mono PL, I don't get that error but the font is not correct (but I did not expect it to be since it is not a Nerd Font - it doesn't work right in Terminal either).

Any idea how to get this font to work in VS Code? I can still use the old CaskaydiaCove Nerd Font Mono but I would like to switch to use the new Cascadia Code.

I posted an issue to the Cascadia Code GitHub as https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code/issues/731.

Thanks.

[CherryDT]

Now it works again. I would really like to know why it keeps coming back after some updates and then randomly starts working again. Is this one and same issue really getting fixed and un-fixed 4 times by now?

[CherryDT]

It broke again. Now also ligatures are broken within the editor.

Why does every second update fix and un-fix this? It starts to feel ridiculous. Could someone please take a look at this problem? It's bugging me for over a year now!

[dmonder]

Maybe it is just odd? :) Mine partially works. At least the font is mostly working.

[CherryDT]

Still broken in latest version. (Previously it often fixed itself after one update but this time it did not.)

@Tyriar Could you please get back to me about what info is needed given the info-needed tag still being there? Thank you

[451909626]

I'm having the same problem as you. I'm using the open-source font LXGW WenKai Mono in github. After last update, the fonts were normal for a while, until a certain reboot, all the fonts reverted to the default, including in Jupyter Lab. The only error message is VS Code suggests that this font is not a mono font and cannot be applied to the terminal, but obviously it was applied normally before. I guess the problem maybe coming from the Windows but not VS Code.

[451909626]

It looks like Windows have trouble in recognizing mono fonts!

[CherryDT]

Hm, possible, but then why does it work in other applications?

[Etrinque]

broken here as well... was fine forever. using PowerShell on VScode. JetBrains-Mono, installed on system and set for default on both terminal propper and through vscode. Oh-My-Posh broken as well. Cant for the life of me track down why or what happened.

[meganrogge]

@Etrinque That is already fixed in the Insiders build. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/211922

[VSCodeTriageBot]

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