Any recommendations for VS Code? about victor-mono HOT 10 CLOSED

Looks great now. Reinstalled fonts using brew, using

  "editor.fontFamily": "Victor Mono",
  "editor.fontLigatures": true,
  "editor.fontWeight": "600",
  "editor.fontSize": 16

Selecting "Victor Mono Medium" does not work at all if you have installed the font via Homebrew. At least not for me.

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@klippx
I had the same issue too.
Here's what I did and it became legible.

"editor.fontFamily": "Victor Mono Medium", //i.e. add "Medium"
"editor.fontLigatures": true,
"editor.fontWeight": "700",  //To make it even bolder (Though optional) 

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This issue is familiar from my sporadic attempts to try to like VS Code.

The fix is either to wait for either:

• VS Code to render fonts on Mojave more like other apps do (there's some recent activity there, so might happen pretty soon. See here, for example: microsoft/vscode#59887)
  or
• Me to release the font with heavier weights – it is, after all, very thin in its only version so far, but that's because it just follows my personal preference in how it appears on ST3 / macOS. Don't know when this will happen, just loose plans for now.

😄

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I don't think it matters.

I had a look at how much work adding some more weights entails. It shouldn't be a massive job, but will take some time. Check again in a few weeks :)

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Can you give the new version with multiple weights a go and post back what you think?

I typically found that VS Code needs ~ two higher levels of weight than Sublime Text (or any browser) for the font to appear roughly the same. Weird stuff.

😃

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Closing this one now, more weights are added to make VS Code rendering a little more agreeable. TTF hinting might arrive later at some point.

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To anyone else experiencing the same issue.

I found out that to make a decent workaround you currently have these options:

• Change theme in vs code (just need to find one that has the italics you want for keywords/comments/etc AND is to your liking)
• Tweak screen settings; mainly increasing brightness and tuning contrast. Try quick "mode" changes (Gaming, Movie, etc)

In the end I still managed to use the theme in the original screenshots, so I fixed by tweaking monitor.

I think that a slight heavier font weight would be another workaround but means more work for you. I have no idea between 100-900 what would be a good choice.

Btw, it doesn't matter on Mac which file I use to install? TTF, WOFF, WOFF2, OTF or EOT?

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This is not a problem specific to Victor Mono actually. All 'light' fonts are pretty much unreadable or unusable in dark color schemes. Sublime and VSCode use different antialiasing (VSCode calls this font aliasing) techniques by default, you might try changing them (if the new weight rubjo provided don't work for you).

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Maybe adding a TTF hinted version could also help (at least on Windows, for ClearType)

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"editor.fontFamily": "Victor Mono",
 "editor.fontLigatures": true,
 "editor.fontWeight": "500", // italic comment calligraphy support starts from 500 as far as I explore
 "editor.fontSize": 16

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