RFC: Font Configuration

I've been thinking about many of the current limitations of how Alacritty's font configuration and possible solutions. This is an RFC for a fully capable font configuration section. Feedback is very much invited! I may have missed out on some important requirement, and I may have missed out on an obviously better solution. Please feel welcome to comment and suggest improvements or add to the list of use cases this should handle. ## Font Configuration, today Current font configuration is achieved through the following block of YAML. Most of the comments are preserved for clarity. ```yaml font: # The normal (roman) font face to use. normal: family: monospace style: Regular # The bold font face bold: family: monospace style: Bold # The italic font face italic: family: monospace style: Italic # Point size of the font size: 11.0 # Offset is the extra space around each character. offset.y can be thought of # as modifying the linespacing, and offset.x as modifying the letter spacing. offset: x: 0.0 y: 0.0 # Glyph offset determines the locations of the glyphs within their cells with # the default being at the bottom. Increase the x offset to move the glyph to # the right, increase the y offset to move the glyph upward. glyph_offset: x: 0.0 y: 0.0 # OS X only: use thin stroke font rendering. Thin strokes are suitable # for retina displays, but for non-retina you probably want this set to # false. u

Posted by jwilm on Dec 23, 2017, 1:31 AM

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