Font way too small

[cpaulik]

After the upgrade to 0.51.0 from 0.49.x everything in my emacs is way smaller than before. I do have Source Code Pro installed and everything worked perfectly before.

I do have a hdpi screen and use font scaling of 1.5 in Ubuntu to get everything to the correct size.
See the screenshot, the terminal is normal font size, emacs below is way to small to read:

[syl20bnr]

Check the logs in *Messages* you should have a deprecation warning.
Font is now specified with the variable dotspacemacs-default-font more info here: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/blob/master/doc/DOCUMENTATION.md#font

[cpaulik]

Oh, thank you, I did miss this change.

For me setting dotspacemacs-default-font in .spacemacs only works outside of the dotspacemacs/config function. Is this the intended behaviour?

[syl20bnr]

Yes, all dotspacemacs- variables should be in a setq outside of init and config.
See the reference in the template here: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/blob/master/core/templates/.spacemacs.template

[cpaulik]

Thanks, that solves this issue for me.

[t3chnoboy]

I have the same issue. However, setting dotspacemacs-default-font doesn't seem to work.
My config: .spacemacs
OS X 10.10, Emacs 24.4

[syl20bnr]

@t3chnoboy if you set the size bigger than 15 does it work ? In the past with spacemacs/set-font the passed size was not the exact size displayed by emacs (usually the true size was bigger than the requested one), whereas now if you put 15 you'll get 15 as intended.

[t3chnoboy]

No, it's still unchanged. Also, it's not just size – the font is not being changed either.

[syl20bnr]

ok, can you verify that you pass the correct font name ? Spacemacs will skip it when he cannot find it.

[syl20bnr]

@t3chnoboy Can you test the develop branch ? I just push a new way to detect the font.

[t3chnoboy]

sure

[t3chnoboy]

https://gist.github.com/t3chnoboy/26d428c50e5ac36862a0

[t3chnoboy]

Still doesn't work

[syl20bnr]

@t3chnoboy I pushed a new commit, should work :-) Thank you!

[t3chnoboy]

Well, it's not working :(

[t3chnoboy]

https://gist.github.com/t3chnoboy/0a24316e2a1d49ce9df2

[syl20bnr]

Change the font to see if it works with another font.
BTW, you don't need a powerline patched font with the emacs powerline, it does not use font characters.

[syl20bnr]

Also be sure that you don't have any other settings that change the font afterward.

[syl20bnr]

This line is suspicious: https://github.com/t3chnoboy/dotfiles/blob/OSX/.spacemacs#L206

[t3chnoboy]

Yup! Removed that line and now it works! 👯
Thank you!

[syl20bnr]

Great ! :-)

[person808]

I'm also having this problem on 0.52.1. This is after a clean install because I wanted to try spacemacs. Nothing was touched.

[syl20bnr]

@person808 in spacemacs install the dotfile with SPC : dostpacemacs/install then open the file with SPC f e d and change the size of the font (look for :size).
More info here: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/blob/master/doc/DOCUMENTATION.md#font

[syl20bnr]

@person808 what is your linux distribution ?

[person808]

@syl20bnr I doubled the font size to 26 and everything looks fine. I'm on Arch Linux.

[syl20bnr]

@person808 great !

[aaron-lebo]

I ran into a similar issue on a fresh arch/spacemacs install.

With a size of "13", the font would not match the fonts on the rest of my system, it was too small. However, I noticed in the documentation this line:

"The font size—either a non-negative integer that specifies the pixel size, or a floating-point number that specifies the point size. "

Those of you having problems with small fonts, I'd suggest making sure you use a decimal value, "13.0", which will specify a size in points like the rest of the system.

Would a change like this being the default make things more consistent?

[mlongval]

I uncommented "org" in dotspacemacs-configuration-layers

Download and compilation seem to have gone well

But I get:

SPC m is undefined

When I try to start org-mode

[mlongval]

Ok fixed that last problem by starting a new file with .org

[TheBB]

This issue is closed and about something else entirely. You can start a new one if you have problems.

[mlongval]

Thanks,

Actually I wanted to post to Gitter and it ended up on that page.

Thanks again

Michael Longval, MD
mlongval@gmail.com

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[isthisthat]

Hello, changing dotspacemacs-default-font doesn't do it for me on CentOS 6, spacemacs 0.104.3, emacs 24.5.1. Font stays the same size. Anything else I can try?

[isthisthat]

In fact, none of the font settings seem to have an effect...

[d12frosted]

@isthisthat Are you running GUI or in terminal?

[isthisthat]

Running GUI

[isthisthat]

Hello, could this ticket be re-opened?

[TheBB]

Are you sure the font name exists? If it does not, none of the other settings will apply.

[nixmaniack]

FWIW, even if font exists, the current implementation might not detect the font in which case this would be similar to #3643

[isthisthat]

Thanks to all for your help. The issue was the missing font indeed. Problem is that I don't have sudo privileges on my machine. Luckily there is a ~/.fonts directory in my home to which I copied the Source Code Pro TTFs from https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro and then ran fc-cache -f -v which registered the font on CentOS 6. I can now increase the font size :)

[isthisthat]

Spoke too soon. Font changed and now is too large. Font size in ~/.spacemacs still has no effect. Also upgraded to the latest release. Still nothing.

[glimmercn]

I'm using ubuntu 15.04, emacs 24.5 and spacemacs develop branch. I have the same issue. No setting of font works. It says spacemacs can't fine "Source Code Pro". But I have SCP installed and have no issue when running "emacs -nw".

I think it's a x window issue. When running emacs, here is the warning
Cannot convert string "--courier-medium-r----120-----iso8859-*" to type FontStruct

Have to dig more to solve the problem.

[slve]

I've solved this issue by adding
(custom-set-faces '(default ((t (:height 160 :family "Consolas" :embolden t)))))
into the top of (defun dotspacemacs/user-config () ...
(using spacemac v0.200.2, and Arch GNU/Linux)

[a-y-khan]

I ran into a similar issue on a fresh arch/spacemacs install.

With a size of "13", the font would not match the fonts on the rest of my system, it was too small. However, I noticed in the documentation this line:

"The font size—either a non-negative integer that specifies the pixel size, or a floating-point number that specifies the point size. "

Those of you having problems with small fonts, I'd suggest making sure you use a decimal value, "13.0", which will specify a size in points like the rest of the system.

Changing font size to 13.0 also worked for me on Ubuntu 18.04.