Bold and italic version seems to have a different width to a non-bold version in IDEA

[mnn]

In following pictures is exactly same region of code.

Different font:

FiraCode:

Any idea how to setup IDEA to not break characters grid? Or is the font broken?

[tonsky]

Fira Code does not provide italics. Idea uses its own algorithms to generate italisized characters on the fly. I recommend reporting the issue to their bugtracker

[mnn]

It doesn't seem IDEA guys can solve it on their end. Any plans on adding support for italics and bold variants?

[tonsky]

@mnn this is a different kind of problem. They can’t to much about how italisized characters end up looking, but changing glyphs width from monospased to non-monospased is a different type of problem. You should probably create a new issue, they might want to look into that.

As of adding italics, I can’t do it on my own, but if the guys at Carrois decide to add it I’ll be happy to copy it over. BTW bold weight is already in the font

[zakora]

As of adding italics, I can’t do it on my own, but if the guys at Carrois decide to add it I’ll be happy to copy it over. BTW bold weight is already in the font

I looked at the Fira Sans and FiraGo font pages by Carrois and both seem to have italic variants now. Could these could eventually be ported to Fira Mono/Code?

[tonsky]

Those are proportional versions. Fira Code is based on Fira Mono, a monospaced one suitable for programming