The width of the half-width space appears doubled in VSCode

[pddg]

Hi. I'm a developer and not very familiar with fonts.
Please let me know what happened when using this awesome product.

Environtment

• macOS 10.14.5 Mojave
• VSCode 1.36.0
• iTerm2 3.2.9
• PyCharm Professional 2019.1.3

I installed the SF Mono Square following your instruction on README. And open the folder containing fonts, then, double clicked and installed them.

What is the problem?

I want to use this font on VSCode, but the half-width space looks like doubled.

And the line height behaves strangely with default value 0. It uses the size of font if it specified 0.

But I specify the line height manually (as same as editor font size), It behaves normally.

These behaviors do not appear in other applications such like iTerm2 or PyCharm.

This phenomenon could not be confirmed with other fonts (Menlo, Monaco, Ricty Diminished with-icons...etc).

Question

1. Is this a bug?
2. Do you know the workaround for this?

[delphinus]

hmm... It seems that VSCode sees some other properties in fonts than other apps. I will investigate this deeper. Wait minutes.

[delphinus]

for the “space” glyph

I've released v1.1.1 for a temporal workaround for this. This installs source fonts named “SF Mono 1x2”.

SF Mono 1x2 is a part of SF Mono Square and has half-width glyphs only. You can set it as fontFamily in VSCode, and SF Mono Square as the fallback.

• "SF Mono 1x2", "SF Mono Square"

This makes good for such texts above.

for line height

In general, VSCode adjusts the line height by calculating with some properties of fonts. SF Mono Square and the original SF Mono have this properties and VSCode inserts some spaces between lines even if lineHeight == 0. It is the spec.

So if you feel annoying the extra space, you should supply the same value as the font size into Line Height.

[pddg]

@delphinus It's working as I expected. Thank you!

[delphinus]

welcome ;) I will investigate further, later.

[shungo27]

I can not see full-width space with VSCode "SF Mono 1x2", "SF Mono Square".

[delphinus]

@pddg Sorry for toooo late. This is fixed in the release v3.1.0, I think. Check it out.