Timothy Reen
2018-06-09 05:39:52 UTC
I run with the 'Draw bold text in bold font' option set.
Most of the time this works great â e.g. with the font set to Menlo
Regular, bold text is rendered in Menlo Bold.
If the typeface doesn't have a bold font (e.g. Monaco), bold text is
rendered as 'faux bold' â just the regular font, distorted to look more
bold. Given there's no other option, that's fine.
But sometimes a bold font will be available, but iTerm will use faux bold
instead.
On iTerm2 Build 3.1.6beta5, if I select IBM Plex Mono Regular, bold text is
rendered with IBM Plex Mono Bold and it looks great. But if I select IBM
Plex Mono Medium, iTerm uses faux bold for bold text.
If I better understood the logic iTerm applies to find the right font, I
thought it might be possible to change my font the names or metadata.
Based on this information from FontBook.app, it seems there's more going on
than just using the bold style font of the same family...otherwise IBM Plex
Mono Bold would be used when the main font is Medium, as well as Regular.
PostScript name: IBMPlexMono
Full name: IBM Plex Mono
Family: IBM Plex Mono
Style: Regular
Kind: OpenType TrueType
Script: Cyrillic, Latin
Version: Version 2.000
Location: /Users/tim/Library/Fonts/IBMPlexMono-Regular.ttf
Unique name: 2.000;IBM ;IBMPlexMono
PostScript name: IBMPlexMono-Bold
Full name: IBM Plex Mono Bold
Family: IBM Plex Mono
Style: Bold
Kind: OpenType TrueType
Script: Cyrillic, Latin
Version: Version 2.000
Location: /Users/tim/Library/Fonts/IBMPlexMono-Bold.ttf
Unique name: 2.000;IBM ;IBMPlexMono-Bold
PostScript name: IBMPlexMono-Medium
Full name: IBM Plex Mono Medium
Family: IBM Plex Mono
Style: Medium
Kind: OpenType TrueType
Script: Cyrillic, Latin
Version: Version 2.000
Location: /Users/tim/Library/Fonts/IBMPlexMono-Medium.ttf
Unique name: 2.000;IBM ;IBMPlexMono-Medium
Most of the time this works great â e.g. with the font set to Menlo
Regular, bold text is rendered in Menlo Bold.
If the typeface doesn't have a bold font (e.g. Monaco), bold text is
rendered as 'faux bold' â just the regular font, distorted to look more
bold. Given there's no other option, that's fine.
But sometimes a bold font will be available, but iTerm will use faux bold
instead.
On iTerm2 Build 3.1.6beta5, if I select IBM Plex Mono Regular, bold text is
rendered with IBM Plex Mono Bold and it looks great. But if I select IBM
Plex Mono Medium, iTerm uses faux bold for bold text.
If I better understood the logic iTerm applies to find the right font, I
thought it might be possible to change my font the names or metadata.
Based on this information from FontBook.app, it seems there's more going on
than just using the bold style font of the same family...otherwise IBM Plex
Mono Bold would be used when the main font is Medium, as well as Regular.
PostScript name: IBMPlexMono
Full name: IBM Plex Mono
Family: IBM Plex Mono
Style: Regular
Kind: OpenType TrueType
Script: Cyrillic, Latin
Version: Version 2.000
Location: /Users/tim/Library/Fonts/IBMPlexMono-Regular.ttf
Unique name: 2.000;IBM ;IBMPlexMono
PostScript name: IBMPlexMono-Bold
Full name: IBM Plex Mono Bold
Family: IBM Plex Mono
Style: Bold
Kind: OpenType TrueType
Script: Cyrillic, Latin
Version: Version 2.000
Location: /Users/tim/Library/Fonts/IBMPlexMono-Bold.ttf
Unique name: 2.000;IBM ;IBMPlexMono-Bold
PostScript name: IBMPlexMono-Medium
Full name: IBM Plex Mono Medium
Family: IBM Plex Mono
Style: Medium
Kind: OpenType TrueType
Script: Cyrillic, Latin
Version: Version 2.000
Location: /Users/tim/Library/Fonts/IBMPlexMono-Medium.ttf
Unique name: 2.000;IBM ;IBMPlexMono-Medium
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