Setting editor.fontWeight to 300 in VSCode makes all text italic

[smlombardi]

Cascadia family version

2106.17

Cascadia family variant(s)

Cascadia Code (the version with ligatures)

Font file format(s)

.ttf (variable)

Platform

MacOS 11.4

Other Software

Visual Studio Code

What happened?

I used to use the static fonts but followed the suggestion in the ReadMe that the TTF has better hinting and should be used.

Checking in Font Book shows a lot of weights:

I'd like to use a lighter weight in VS Code, but if I set it to 300, the font is all italic:

It seems to work as expected in Terminal where I can use a GUI to set the weight:

as you can see, it looks like Light here:

[aaronbell]

Hm. I'm not seeing that issue in VS Code myself. It may be caused by multiple font installs causing issues. I would suggest uninstalling all versions of the fonts, restarting, and reinstalling.

[smlombardi]

I did, more than once. If I install the static TTF or OTF fonts, then I can set the font to "Cascadia Code Light"

[aaronbell]

Hm. I'm afraid I'm not sure what's going on for you! Given that you're on a mac, just go ahead and use the OTFs. :)

[aaronbell]

It looks like this is the same issue as #500, so I'll close this and continue discussion over there.

[aaronbell]

BTW, out of interest, can you provide a bit more information about the system / VS Code version that you're using? I feel like this is likely a platform-specific issue but want to make sure.

[smlombardi]

Mac OS 11.4

Version: 1.59.0-insider
Commit: 807dfb817fef0d0c5729c1924bd4889b04fa405b
Date: 2021-07-13T09:15:26.467Z
Electron: 12.0.13
Chrome: 89.0.4389.128
Node.js: 14.16.0
V8: 8.9.255.25-electron.0
OS: Darwin x64 20.5.0