Re: Can not change face weight on Windows

[Francis Wright]

On Windows 11, I installed the latest version of Cascadia Code (2404.23). Then, in Emacs 29.2, I clicked on Set Default Font... in the Options menu. In the resulting dialogue, I selected Cascadia Code and was offered a lot of font styles including ExtraLight and Light. Light is clearly lighter than Regular and ExtraLight is clearly lighter than Light. I selected Light and size 11. Closing the dialogue and clicking on Save Options in the Options menu wrote the following to my .emacs file:

(custom-set-faces

 '(default ((t (:family "Cascadia Code Light" :foundry "outline" :slant normal :weight light :height 108 :width normal)))))

Based on that, I tried

(set-face-attribute 'default nil :family "Cascadia Code Light" :height 108)

which seems to work correctly.

(set-face-attribute 'default nil :family "Cascadia Code Light" :weight 'light :height 108)

also works, but specifying the weight explicitly seems to be redundant. I presume this recipe will also work for the fixed-pitch font, but I haven't tried it.

Best of luck!
Francis

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From: help-emacs-windows-bounces+f.j.wright=live.co.uk@gnu.org <help-emacs-windows-bounces+f.j.wright=live.co.uk@gnu.org> on behalf of Chang Xiaoduan <drcxd@sina.com>
Sent: 11 September 2024 9:00 AM
To: help-emacs-windows@gnu.org <help-emacs-windows@gnu.org>
Subject: Can not change face weight on Windows

 

Hello,

I am trying to use Cascadia Code for the default and fixed-pitch faces
in Emacs. However, I feel the regular weight too dense for me, so I
want to use the light version.

I have the following code in my init.el file:

(set-face-attribute 'default nil
              :font "Cascadia Code"
              :weight 'light
              :height 160)
(set-face-attribute 'fixed-pitch nil
              :font "Cascadia Code"
              :weight 'light
              :height 1.0)

However, evaluating these expressions does not make any
change. Executing describe-face on default and fixed-pitch shows that
the weight is still regular.

I have doubted that this issue is exclusive on Windows, so I installed
the same font files and evaluated the same code on a Linux virtual
machine. This time, Emacs correctly sets the weight to light.

So, is this a bug on Emacs? Is this a problem of Windows? Any chance
this behavior can be fixed?

Thanks for any help.

Regards,

–
Chang Xiaoduan