PragmataPro Bold is too much thick and blur font

[ciscohack]

I used PragmataPro bold and it's too much bold and quality also degrade i feel and blur. Thought to report. Any reason PragmataPro not have medium font typeface. I have not seen font eye pleasing compare to new font Operator Mono,CodenewRoman and cascadia .. i watched the youtube video about font also

Both font bold typeface used and clear difference see pragmata is not crisp/sharp same is happening with Regular typface also .. here I have used terminal feature where we can reduce the font thickness ..so imagine how thick font would be and more thick more poor quality

[fabrizioschiavi]

Sorry but I don't see nothing of what you described. Probably it's all a question of taste. I'll create a Medium weight and all will become more acceptable for you. Thanks to let me know your point of view

[ciscohack]

@fabrizioschiavi Thanks for your response. I wish to see more quality improvement in future releases. I don't know might be I am not able to explain you well but font render quality I feel is less compared to many other fonts

I request you to add more glphy support and also to handle icons in the zsh shell. Thanks these are my observations and suggestion

[jvican]

@fabrizioschiavi I don't think the case for a medium weight has been made appropriately. First of all, this is the best font I've ever used, period. I've just bought the whole pack. It's a piece of art.

One reason why a medium weight might be needed is when, in macOS, one disable "font smoothing" or "glyph dilation". One can do this per app or for the whole OS. When you do that, fonts become crispy and light, but IMO too light or lean.

Here's the example of VS Code.

The setting text.fontAliasing is set to default (which implies font smoothing)

The setting text.fontAliasing is set to anti_aliased (which implies lack of font smoothing)

The difference is tremendous. I wish I could have the weight of font smoothing with the crispiness of no font smoothing, this way having the font without any OS alteration.

[fabrizioschiavi]

@jvican, thank you for bringing this optional Mac OS antialiasing setting to our attention!
Nonetheless, I'm diligently working on developing the variable font version, which will undoubtedly allow users to customize the font view to their preference.

[jvican]

I look forward to it! Can't wait. For those that want to disable font smoothing/graph dilation by default, I recommend using https://www.fontsmoothingadjuster.com That will be one of the first things I'll do when the variable font version is out there.

[jvican]

Hi @fabrizioschiavi! Following up on this - do we have an estimate on when the variable font version will be available? I can't wait to use it, haha 😄

[fabrizioschiavi]

Thanks for asking @jvican ! I’m at good point, more than 50% of the >= 18000 glyphs are completed in Roman version.
Soon I’ll approach Italic version and then 💥 I’ll release the variable font pack!

[jvican]

That is AWESOME! I'm hyped up to start using the new font styles 😄 Thanks a lot.

[mrclayman]

@fabrizioschiavi , first of all, thank you so very much for your effort and all the hard work. I was just wondering if it would be feasible to maybe release smaller updates more often rather than trying to finish everything all at once. That way people could start using the new features sooner even though some capabilities would come later.

Yes, I am a little impatient 😄 but please take the time you need.