More font options

[ajitid]

A lot of people use fonts like Fira Code, which doesn't has italics. Wouldn't that be great to have options to force no_italics, no_bold, etc?

[frankdugan3]

What I would like to see is the ability to choose separate fonts for different styles.

{
  "editor.fontFamily": "'Fira Code'",
  "editor.italicFontFamily": "'Ubuntu Mono'",
  ...
}

[ristomatti]

Odd, this used to work and I'm pretty sure it still worked not too long ago. This breaks my theme Solarized Dark Grey which uses bold to highlight keywords. I haven't used VSCode lately but it for sure worked when I've last updated the theme (6/7/2022).

Interestingly, if I adjust "editor.fontWeight", it only seems to have an effect if I set it to "800" (or higher) which makes the other parts of the code bold but not the keywords:

If set to a low value, e.g. "100" it doesn't have have the oppositive effect.

Edit: Nevermind, I had previously set the fontFamily to JetBrains Mono Medium. Changing to JetBrains Mono fixes the theme semantics but makes the fonts less legible. Anyhow, not related to this issue. :)