Better font for webR REPL/console

[alekrutkowski]

The Courier font in the REPL is too thin, resulting in poor readability. Could it be changed into one of modern fonts (e.g. Fira, Cascadia, Intel One, Ubuntu Mono, Julia Mono, etc.)?

[georgestagg]

I don't mind tweaking the font stack, but out of interest which OS and browser are you using? Can you show me a screenshot of how it looks on your machine?

IIRC we are just using the default fonts provided by the editor library (CodeMirror) and terminal (xterm.js).

Here it what it looks like for me:

[alekrutkowski]

I use MS Windows and the Edge web browser. I attach the screenshot -- for the moment, I have access to a low-DPI screen only. The font looks much worse (extremely thin) on a high-DPI screen (4K). For the default monospace font, I use Cartograph CF (visible in the script pane). 

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