Font Jetbrains Mono, 13 antialising subpixel - windows
Font Jetbrains Mono, 13 subpixel antialiasing
I use IntelliJ Communit on windows with Jetbrains Mono font settings, 13 subpixel antialising.
IntelliJ IDEA 2023.2.1 (Community Edition)
Build #IC-232.9559.62, built on August 23, 2023
Runtime version: 17.0.8+7-b1000.8 amd64
VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o.
Windows 10.0
GC: G1 Young Generation, G1 Old Generation
Memory: 2048M
Colors: 12
Registry:
ide.experimental.ui=true
Kotlin: 232-1.9.0-IJ9559.62
The font is bigger than normal for size 13. In Ubuntu for size 13, it's normal. Comparing the 2 environments I see that in windows the font is stretched vertically with size 13. With the change from antialising to Grayscale, the font size looks normal, but the code is bold.
Images : System windows
# Antialising Subpixel
# Antialising Grayscale
Is there a problem here, or is this larger font normal on windows?
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In Java applications like IntelliJ Idea, font rendering is done by native OS methods implemented by the Java Runtime Environment. This means that on different OSes, the font looks slightly different. We cannot guarantee the same font look on all platforms.
In other windows environments I saw that the font is normal and well defined.
The font really doesn't look good in my development environment. (Jetbrain Mono)
I read some old issues about this issue related to implemented by the Java Runtime Environment. But I couldn't figure out the problem of my environment. The font does not look natural.
thanks
When we make changes on Windows or macOS, it works more or less the same way for all users on that platforms, but on Linux we rely on fontconfig, which makes rendering differ between users (mainly due to hinting configuration), not to mention general distro-related differences and bugs only reproducible on some exotic configurations.
Linux is not being neglected, just requires more effort to polish it to the same state as other platforms.
So for now we can recommend to try to set antialiasing to Grayscale in settings, someone may like it more