I would like to change the font face in Sublime Text.
How can I see what options are available for me to change it to?
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Sublime Text can use the same fonts as on your OS– slhckDec 26, 2013 at 16:41
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Great. How can I determine what fonts are available on my OS, which is Mac - Mavericks, incidentally.– tadasajonDec 26, 2013 at 16:46
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Answering my own question - on Mac, use the Font Book app.– tadasajonDec 26, 2013 at 16:51
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From your Finder, open Applications » Font Book.app. It will show you a list of all fonts installed on your system:
You can use all of these in Sublime Text (however you may want try only Fixed Width fonts for coding) by adding this in your preferences – just substitute the name of the font:
{
"font_face": "Source Code Pro"
}
Font Variants
(based on a suggested edit by @Merlin)
If you want to choose font variants, this becomes more complicated. An example (Sublime Text 3, macOS).
- Font name in Font Book:
Input Mono Compressed Extra Light Italic - Font filename:
InputMonoCompressed-ExtraLightItalic.ttf
In your settings, you then have to use:
"font_face": "InputMonoCompressed-ExtraLightItalic",
That is, go with the filename minus extension.
The following works for "Input Mono Compressed Extra Light":
"font_face": "InputMonoCompressed ExLight",
The following attempts didn't work:
"font_face": "Input Mono Compressed Extra Light Italic",
"font_face": "InputMonoCompressed ExtraLightItalic",
"font_face": "InputMonoCompressedExtraLightItalic",
"font_face": "InputMonoCompressed ExLightItalic",
// and more permutations
"font_face": "Input Mono Compressed ExLight",
Which is a little maddening considering Input Mono Compressed did work for the non-'Extra Light' version. I never did discover the right permutations and shortening to get the Extra Light Italic to work.
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1I experimented with typing exactly as shown in fontbook, with spaces between words removed. This worked for example: ‘InputMonoCondensed ExtraLight’. The spacing or lack of was important, but chars were all from Font Book name.– MerlinApr 5, 2019 at 17:14
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Good to know, @Merlin! Feel free to suggest an edit to the answer to reflect that.– slhckApr 5, 2019 at 19:00
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@Merlin Your initial edit was rejected, but I took parts of it and reordered it to put the actual answer on top.– slhckApr 9, 2019 at 7:25