Code editor font makes me cry (with Russian / Cyrillic text)

[ixth]

Workaround: How to switch to a different code font

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I have no 'SourceCodePro' and Russian text looks awfully in "ＭＳ ゴシック" and "MS Gothic" (which is default according to developer tools). Is there way to set custom font in editor view?

sprint 23 experimental build 0.23.0-6726 (master 6908b48), Windows7

[peterflynn]

@ainop SourceCodePro is loaded from disk by Brackets using @font-face, so you do have it :-)

However, it looks like SourceCodePro doesn't support Cyrillic characters yet: adobe-fonts/source-code-pro#48. Feel free to comment on that issue so the font team knows you're interested!

In the meantime... there's no way in the Brackets UI to customize fonts yet. But if you're comfortable hacking the code a bit, you can edit www/styles/brackets_theme_default.less and change the .code-font rule. (There's no need to recompile or anything -- just re-launch Brackets). On Windows, Consolas would be a pretty good alternative font to try -- it's what Visual Studio uses, and Brackets used to use it before SourceCodePro went open-source.

[peterflynn]

Adding 'tracking' tag since adobe-fonts/source-code-pro#48 covers the root issue. Clarifying issue title.

[njx]

Should we consider adding Consolas as a fallback? If the Cyrillic glyphs aren't actually in Source Code Pro, maybe that would just work.

[njx]

Also, @ainop, we're very sorry we made you cry!

[peterflynn]

We'd have to be careful about what order Consolas vs. the Asian-language fonts go in since we still want fallback to work there too... but it might be doable. (And of course we'd need to pick an equivalent new fallback option for Mac... was it Lucida Console that we used to use?).

[njx]

It looks like our Mac font fallback was Menlo, Monaco, monospace. (I think Monaco was in there for older versions of OS X that didn't have Menlo.)

[ixth]

Thanks a lot, guys! I'll patch my setup.

[njx]

Reviewed. Medium priority to me. Might nominate it next sprint.

[romanov]

Waiting for a great font.

[HamsterCoder]

Oh, my issue! =)
Russian characters are too far apart from eac other, so the whole code is not monospace anymore. I'll be waiting for a fix too.

[romanov]

Current solution: https://github.com/adobe/brackets/wiki/Customize-Your-Code-Font
My recommendation for Windows users is font-family:Consolas, monospace;

[dananichev]

How about selecting the font based on user's language? Atleast as default fonts for user.
My suggestion is
PT Sans
http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/PT+Sans