Should CaskaydiaCove (nerd version of Cascadia) be replaced with the official nerd version?

[yuantao313]

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Microsoft has released a new version of Cascadia font recently. In this release, they gave an official version of nerd fonts.

Describe the solution you'd like
I think the old version should be replaced with the official version.
We can also just add the official version and add a tag to inform.

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[hasecilu]

Source? What license have their font, can be redistributed? It could be that some glyphs have different sizes or are displaced from center.

[Finii]

I just discussed something similar at the Delugia repo, as that was the first Nerd Font version of Cascadia Code. The Caskaydia Cove came only later.

See

• #Future of Delugia adam7/delugia-code#83 (comment)

So you see there is no CascadiaCove NF variant for each of the CaskaydiaCove variants.

And then:

It could be that some glyphs have different sizes or are displaced from center.

That is indeed the case, the glyphs have a bit more margin than Nerd Font has. I personally like that more, but I know that there are people out there who would hate that change. Nonetheless, for example #1564 is a direct product of the Nerd Fonts team (i.e. me) working together with Saja Typeworks (i.e. Aaron) on CascadiaCodeNF (not that I could add much apart from comments and reviews).

So let me list the differences, as I know them in an ad hoc manner

• CascadiaCodeNF is what we call Nerd Fonts Mono, there is no other variant
• Albeit the font is Nerd Font Mono-like the icons do not fill the cell completely but have a small 'border'
• CascadiaCoveNF implements Nerd Fonts v3.1.1 and I do not know of any update schedule
• PowerlineExtra scaling ideas differ (because CascadiaCodePL used some Nerd Fonts v2.x or something)

So I guess we can/should not drop CaskaydiaCove, but we should maybe add a link and documentation that there is CascadiaCodeNF (which I personally like very much).