Source Code Pro (Light)
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Can the bundled IntelliJ JRE be amended to have custom fonts recognised? My understanding is that the bundled JRE (or rather, the whole package) is signed, so changes to it prevent the IDE from launching.
Specifically I would like to use the Source Code Pro Light (or Extra Light) font in the editor. IntelliJ currently only offers me the regular SCP font, despite there being several variants installed system-wide on my machine.
I have had some success by configuring IntelliJ to launch with the system-wide JRE, where I have copied in the SCP fonts to $JAVA_HOME/lib/fonts, but by doing so I lose the regular IDE font that IntelliJ uses for text that is not code.
Any advice on how to achieve this?
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Check the following requests:
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-173204
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-92825
The recommended workaround is to use some font editor to rename the font so that it doesn't clash with the preinstalled fonts. BTW, bundled fonts are not installed into JetBrains Runtime.