racket / racket/gui

Make control font public or make a large-control-font.

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Description

At the moment, the only way to get a control font is via normal-control-font or one of its (for the most part) smaller variants.

It would make sense for there to be a large-control-font to go along with the small-control-font, and possibly even a huge-control-font to go along with tiny-control-font.

An alternative approach, it looks like the internal library has a producer that just returns the control font itself, letting the user pick a size, perhaps that would make a good public interface?

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the existing public control-font variants, including normal-control-font, small-control-font, and tiny-control-font, then investigate the internal producer mentioned in the issue. Determine whether the project should expose the control font for caller-selected sizing or add larger named variants. Done means one agreed public interface is implemented and documented consistently with the existing variants.

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Assessment

Domain
desktop
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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