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Petition against using Cascadia Mono font
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Description
When you install Microsoft Terminal, it comes with a font: Cascadia (Code / Mono). Stacks uses Cascadia Mono for monospaced fonts:
Now that font has a peculiarity: in italics, it becomes cursive:
let's foo the bars
This renders like this:
And I don't find that too readable. Could you consider omitting this font on Windows, or selecting the non-cursive variant for italics? Until the latter is released, I'd prefer Consolas.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Open lib/css/exports/_stacks-constants-type.less at the referenced font-stack lines and review how Cascadia Mono is selected for monospaced text. Reproduce the italic rendering shown in the issue, then update the font choice or fallback so italic monospace text is readable and verify the resulting styling.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- css
- Domain
- design, frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100