Unable to set "Iosevka Extended" as my editor font

[IlyaBizyaev]

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In VSCode, I have the following font configuration:

"editor.fontFamily": "'Iosevka Extended', 'monospace', monospace, 'Iosevka Extended Fallback'",

I tried to copy it to Zed, which suggested:

"buffer_font_family": "Iosevka-Extended",

But this setting is ignored, and the default font is used instead.

What works is:

"buffer_font_family": "Iosevka",

— but I don't like it :)

Environment

Zed: v0.143.6 (Zed) OS: Linux Wayland opensuse-tumbleweed 20240705 Memory: 62.5 GiB Architecture: x86_64

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[JunkuiZhang]

Can you try setting "buffer_font_family": "Iosevka Extended",?

[IlyaBizyaev]

Tried both with a space and with a dash, neither works :(

[JunkuiZhang]

Could you give me a link so that I can download this font and reproduce this issue?

[IlyaBizyaev]

You can try with: https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/releases/download/v30.3.3/SuperTTC-Iosevka-30.3.3.zip

It's the default version of the latest release: https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/blob/v30.3.3/doc/PACKAGE-LIST.md

[JunkuiZhang]

I tried with VSCode, it seems Iosevka Extended and Iosevka are the same. Did I miss anything?

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c4603f0d-01fd-4a86-9c9d-af5dda465f5a

[IlyaBizyaev]

On the recording, neither variant is actually applied to your VSCode, it falls back to some default font. Maybe you didn't install the font correctly, or your system doesn't support the TTC format — in which case you can try TTF: https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/releases/download/v30.3.3/PkgTTF-Iosevka-30.3.3.zip

[JunkuiZhang]

Still no visual difference:

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/bc1cd724-2c5b-4a31-bac4-fbf814de450d

[IlyaBizyaev]

I'm not sure how to help with that...

Try following installation instructions for your system: https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka?tab=readme-ov-file#installation

You don't have to record it if it doesn't look like on https://typeof.net/Iosevka/

[JunkuiZhang]

I see, VSCode needs to restart to read that font.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c60f9d04-3253-412a-a379-0a7af84ce95d

On my case (win11), there is no font named Iosevka Extended or Iosevka-Extended

[IlyaBizyaev]

It is a width variant of the "Iosevka" font (which is what I guess "54" on your screenshot refers to). It matches the "9 x 3 x 2" scheme on https://typeof.net/Iosevka/, so Windows should be able to access all the variants. I wonder why VSCode doesn't in your case...

[JunkuiZhang]

I guess these extended things are something like font stretch?

[IlyaBizyaev]

I don't know how it's implemented :(

There's https://typeof.net/Iosevka/customizer, but it also just refers to them as "Widths".

Here's how it looks in my case:

2024-07-21 12-15-13.webm

[JunkuiZhang]

Can you find a font named Iosevka Extended in your font manager?

[IlyaBizyaev]

Not as a separate font, no, but I can find it among the 54 variants of the “Iosevka” font, referred to as “Expanded” here for some reason:

That's in the System Settings of KDE Plasma 6.

[VortexFlickens]

I am also facing the exact same issue! Iosevka works but Iosevka-Extended and Iosevka-Medium-Extended doesn't

[sztomi]

I have a different setup (macOS and a custom Iosevka build), but I'm facing the same problem. Isn't this related to https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/4850 ?

Could be a duplicate of https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/5028

[JunkuiZhang]

From the codes, the buffer_font_family should be the family name you see in the font manager, such as Iosevka, rather than the font face name, such as Iosevka-Extended or Iosevka Extended.

[sztomi]

I just tried again and now it seems to work for me, even though the settings linter is complaining about it. But I can tell it's loading the right one because the default font does not have nerd icons:

[JunkuiZhang]

I just tried again and now it seems to work for me, even though the settings linter is complaining about it. But I can tell it's loading the right one because the default font does not have nerd icons:

On macOS, you can use font names like Expanded, and CoreText will parse them into the correct font face for you.

[unparadise]

Have the same issue on Ubuntu. Has anyone found a solution to this yet?