Mix of Bold and Not Bold is not Monospace anymore

[MalcolmMielle]

Some editor highlight variable by making them bold (Jucii++). Having both Bold and not bold at the same time makes the language not monopace anymore.

[tonsky]

Yep. It’s a known problem. I haven’t figured out yet what causes it

[MalcolmMielle]

Monoisome suffers from the same problem.
And I don't if that help to say that, when choosing the font in Gedit, when switching between regular and bold, the size of the text at the bottom changes while it still is 12. When trying this with Monospace, that does not happen :).

[typical-whack]

I've run into the same issue.

It's particularly annoying in Intellij with the "darcula" color scheme. This scheme defaults to bold-ing matched braces, which shifts the text ever so slightly due to this bug.

If anyone else has this problem with the "darcula" color scheme in Intellij, the quick fix is to turn off bold text when doing matched brace highlighting in Intellij. This setting can be found here (as of 2019.1):
Settings -> Editor -> Color Scheme -> General -> Code -> Matched Brace

[tonsky]

What OS are you on? Windows/mac/linux? Also what font size, font weight, and are you using TTF or OTF files?

[typical-whack]

I'm on macOS Version: 10.14.6 (18G84)
Font: Fira Code Retina (1.207)
Font size: 12
Using TTF files

Please let me know if you need any more details

[tonsky]

Can you please try files from this commit? https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/tree/b32369cb03ad3c0fe43fd30fd19427169e9592dc/distr/ttf

I moved both ascender and descender down a bit, which fixed bold/having different height for me at least in TextEdit.app.

Let me know how if that fixed it for you too. Thanks!