Font height changed in v2.x (at least on Windows) #286
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Just tested the font update on Windows 10 2004 Build 19041.388. Same effect. |
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@moritzdietz This is not relevant. The powerline symbols on your screenshot are not from the JetBrains Mono. Looks like they brought from NERD patch. |
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Same here on Windows 10 2004, I was forced to downgrade Jetbrains Mono to 1.0.6 |
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@philippnurullin /edit: My bad! You are correct. I was using the wrong font in my terminal emulator - I forgot to change it there. |
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@MicroJoe Top left is only JetBrains Mono on this image. Look at the construction of |
My bad, I have deleted my comment. It was totally irrelevant. My system switched to the default Monospace font instead of the new version of Jetbrains Mono. This is why it looked totally different. |
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+1-ing this issue as this is the case for me as well. Unfortunately the height is definitely different (fonts are taller) in the new version, it does not look like fie as in the code snippets on https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/ |
Major changes — Added Greek alphabet #58 — Reworked diacritics #228 — Removed x-height increasing from hinting. Affects non Retina screens. #286 #265 #272 #262 #275 — A lot of tiding up of contours to meet Google Fonts criteria Other updated and fixes — Ligature for 0x (hexadecimal) prefix #98 — Lowered horizontal bar in Florin to make it more distinguishable form italic f #129 — Changes the 8 construction to make it more distinguishable from B and 0 #188 — Added Changelog #263 — Variable font correctly grouped in one family with Italics #270 — Reverted to previous construction of f #273 — Corrected OneNote line height #278 — Removed kerning pair #297 — Add Overline #298 — Increased difference between hyphen, en-dash, and em-dash #318 — Removed the "tail" in the italic a
— Vertical metrics (win, hhea, typo) made equal to prevent different line-height #334 #286 — Because of vertical metrics unification Vietnamese diacritics was made more compact in capital letters — Added symbols □ △ ▽ ◁ ▷ ▻ ◅ ► ◄ ▪ ▫ ▴ ▾ ◂ ▸ ▵ ◃ ▹ ▿ ∘ ❮ ❯ ❰ ❱ ◌ ◯ ◎ ✕ ⚠ ⚡ ⌂ ◔ ◧ ◨ ◩ ◪ ◫ ⌄ ⌅ ◕ ⌥ ⌃ ⇧ ⌘ #277 — Added Bitcoin symbol #292 — Correction in Greek letters Θ ρ #336
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Hi @csabii Can you please send the screenshots. @rh63 Also please try to reproduce the problem with the latest version from here https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsMono/tree/master/fonts |
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Hi Philipp, Attached screenshots from 1.0.6. and 2.210. I got used to the increased height in the meantime so if it is intentional than I can live with it :) 1.0.6. 2.210 |
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Hi, loke @csabii commented before: I got used to the "new" look. I did like the more compact appearance of the versions up to 1.06 better, but I learned how to live with it. Anyway, thanks for your work and the excellent font you created! Cheers! |
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yes, a big thank you from me as well :) 👍 |
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At the earlier version we used ttfautohinting (the hinting is a process of deforming the contour to best fit in pixel grid) without optimal settings. In the latest version the x-height increased to look more like the original, hi res contour. Basically the JB Mono looks more like v2.1xx. Ok, looks like this issue can be closed. Thanks for the feedback. |
As the title says...
In v1.0.6, the world was fine:
In v2.001, the glyphs are higher than before:
To really see the effect, save the two images and switch back and forth between them in your preferred viewer. It really makes a difference in text editors or mail clients - a change not for the better, at least for me. YMMV... ;)
All this on Windows 10 (obviously!) 1909 Build 18363.997.
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